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Podcasts on this sort of subject are inferior to written articles.

brobdingnagian, on 29 September 2010 - 07:32 PM, said:

Fortunately, we do both. As you would know if you listened to the podcast.

The big difference is, it takes 40 minutes to record a podcast. It takes a lot longer to write the article. Which is why I am sitting here at 9 p.m. still working on it.

Hey one thing you missed in the podcast was how does the new apple TV compare to buying a Mac Mini and using that as a media center?

shenzhen, on 29 September 2010 - 08:35 PM, said:

The Mac Mini costs $600 more and requires substantially more technical prowess to successfully use with a TV. With this much of a difference comparisons may not be valuable to most people. If you are the type to

a: know that you can use a $700 Mac to act as a living room device

b: have $700 to spend and

c: have the technical wherewithal to maintain the device, then you probably are sufficiently knowledgeable about it to be able to make your own informed comparisons based on the article/podcast about the $99 A_TV.

shenzhen, on 29 September 2010 - 08:35 PM, said:

Totally apples and oranges. Attaching a computer to a TV is a much more complicated procedure. It requires set-up, you need to have a keyboard and mouse around to control the device when it goes astray (which is often)... they're really not comparable. Attaching a mini to a TV is fun for techy people, but it'll never be a mainstream product like the Apple TV is trying to be.

iTunes is throwing an error when trying to download this episode via Subscription in the Podcast pane - the url could not be found. You can see a screenshot of the error message at http://www.c3design....rror_9_29_0.png

I submit that Phillip Michaels and Jason Snell are eerily similar-sounding disembodied voices (as has probably been pointed out before).