Tech 107 Episode 3

2Feb/108

Tech 107 Episode 3

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Broadcast - Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Length - 1:01:02
Presenters - Matt Dyson and Seb Payne

This Week In News (2:15) - iPad announced, the user interface, its features and how successful it will be, Apple's locking-down of their products, VOIP over 3G networks, city-wide WiFi, Google Voice, Google drops support for IE6, Firefox 3.6 released, Chrome OS and Facebook rewrite PHP.
Mac vs. PC (41:31) -The debate begins from a discussion of IE6 and a message from a listener evolves into a very spirited date on the platform wars.
Broadband Infrastructure (46:12) - Tories and Labour's proposals leads to a discussion of the future of broadband connectivity
Thing of The Week (55:22) - Two desktop applications this week, get_iplayer and WriteRoom

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Laurence
February 9th, 2010 - 21:52

The A4 is actually based upon ARM architecture. Also the iPhone OS is already pretty damn well designed to fit the CPU. I think the point you are missing is that ARM don’t make the CPUs, they license the designs, so with Apples semi-conductor acquisition they will be in a position to make their own CPUs based upon ARM designs.
Seb
February 9th, 2010 - 23:03

Thanks for that clarification, I suspected that the A4 followed ARM principles which are of a RISC architecture I believe? Do you know what sort of CPU is in the current iPhone?

Seb
Adam
February 9th, 2010 - 23:52

Haha I like the mac vs. pc argument at the end.

Biggest reason to buy a mac:

It is a great laptop that in general “just works” while at the same time because it’s based on unix also has the flexibility of all the unix CLI power and being able to use unix based tools and open source projects.

If I was on Windows I’d have to use Cgywin or something to get the same flexibility and power.

That’s my reason anyway…
Seb
February 10th, 2010 - 09:50

This is very true – Microsoft has made great bounds with their new PowerShell but it still isn’t a patch on a proper *nix terminal. Although I will say on my Mac, I rarely use the command line as the UI is so comprehensive that I only need it for those ‘ultra-nerd moments’. But it is very nice to have the option At least that’s one thing Matt can’t disagree about!

Thanks to my course, I spent a lot of time on my computers and like them to ‘just work’ and Macs tend to do this, apart from when the hard discs break of course…
Noone
February 10th, 2010 - 10:05

I’m not sure about your ultimate backup solution’s reliability if i’m honest.
Seb
February 10th, 2010 - 10:08

Hmmm seems I need to get Episode 4 out to continue this conversation as we spent a long time talking about backing up and what happens when you don’t
Graham
February 10th, 2010 - 10:12

@ Adam,

When I bought my laptop from Dell, it “just worked” when I turned it on.
Does this mean that My Dell laptop is sd good as your mac?
Seb
February 13th, 2010 - 02:15

@Graham Your Dell probably just worked until you tried installing something on it

Episode 4 is now out guys to listen in to hear the backup banter.