Hasta La Gadget!

It’s been one hell of a month, hasn’t it? New Palm phones, new iPhones, a big Kindle, that Natal thing… LL Cool J. Yes, a lot has happened in the past few weeks, and it’s tough to contain all of that activity inside one teensy podcast — but we’ve tried. Join Josh, Paul, and Nilay for another adventurous adventure through time, space, and love as they explore the deeper meanings of the cosmos, the universe, and consumer facing gadgetry. If you don’t love the way you feel after listening to this thing, you may already be a zombie.

Update: We had some issues with the MP3 of the podcast — should be working now. Ping us if you have trouble!

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Viva La Vida

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00:02:05 – iPhone 3G S review
00:13:47 – Video: Josh, Jimmy Fallon, and the iPhone 3 Ga-Speed
00:25:54 – MacBook Pro (mid 2009) in-depth impressions
00:41:30 – Nokia N97 hands-on and impressions
00:45:12 – LL Cool J’s hilariously aggressive N97 ad: “don’t call it a comeback”
00:50:20 – WebOS homebrewers say ‘Hello World!’ to Palm Pre
00:58:00 – Pre gets NES emulation in Linux; our thumbs are in for a world of hurt
00:59:18 – Amazon Kindle DX unboxing and hands-on!
01:06:30 – Project Natal basis for new Xbox console coming Fall 2010?
01:06:50 – Like weeds: new Natal Xbox rumor shot down, 3D Xbox rumor pops up to take its place
01:07:35 – Project Natal recognizing retail shelves in 2010, says Ballmer (update: maybe not)
01:09:50 – Johnny Chung Lee joins Project Natal team, puts Wii hacking experience to good use
01:13:17 – Olympus E-P1 ‘digital Pen’ gets official, so does our lust
01:15:25 – Olympus E-P1 video samples posted, camera turns up in ad-within-an-ad Blendtec spot
01:19:00 – Engadget Chinese goes hands-on with the Olympus E-P1
01:20:00 – Adamo redux: Dell teases new thin-and-light laptops in Paris with no specs

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Engadget Podcast 151 – 06.19.2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple might have bumped the 13-inch unibody MacBook to Pro status at WWDC last week, but it looks like all the shuffling around to reduce costs has had an unfortunate side effect: new MacBook Pros that ship with HDDs only have a 1.5GBps SATA enabled, while SSD configs are apparently getting the full 3.0GBps SATA II experience that used to be standard. For most people this won’t make too much difference since traditional hard drives can’t move data that fast, but it’s something to keep in mind if you’re hoping to buy an HDD unit and swap in a speedier SSD, since your max performance will be bottlenecked. We’ve verified that our review units with HDDs all have the slower settings, but we’ve put in a call to Apple to get some more answers on this — stay tuned.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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New MacBook Pros shipped with HDDs only have 1.5Gbps SATA enabled originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What would you call this? A “fleet” of MacBook Pros? A “catch?” A “murder,” perhaps? In any case, Apple just dropped off the entire line — including the newly-status-bumped 13-inch MacBook Pro — at Engadget HQ, and while we’ll have some in-depth impressions and benchmarks soon, we thought we’d throw up the unboxings and family photos for you right away. We’re sort of struck by how amazingly similar these are in person, but we’re eager to see how the internals stack up — and whether that integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M in the 13-inch can handle a professional workload. Anything else you want to know?

Update: We just noticed that the 13-inch has lost its dedicated audio input jack, we’re guessing because of space constraints with the addition of SD and FireWire 800 — but we’re told the new single jack supports both input and output. We’re testing it out, we’ll let you know.

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Apple’s new MacBook Pro family unboxing and hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yep, Sanho’s Hypermac is a big clunky external battery pack. Sure, we’re intrigued by the idea of running a MacBook Pro for 32 hours straight, but we’d really rather hunt around for a power outlet than drop $500 on the 222Wh unit required to make that happen. On the other hand, we could definitely see splurging for the $150 car charger or the $200 60Wh model, but we’re crazy like that. Shipping later this month, we’re told.

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HyperMac external battery powers MacBooks for 32 hours originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 May 2009 12:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s hard to say at this point whether we should point the blame at NVIDIA, Apple or right in between the two corporate campuses, but it seems that an uncomfortable amount of 17-inch MacBook Pro owners are having some serious issues with their GeForce 9600M graphics card. For those unaware, there is actually a 9400M in there too, but word on the street has it that the random green lines and nasty artifacts are only showing up when the more potent card is kicked into action. Most folks are saying that a reboot solves the problem momentarily, but eventually it returns to bother, annoy and sadden new owners. Anyone else out there pulling their hair out over this? Here’s hoping a firmware update is all that’ll be needed to bring closure to yet another NVIDIA-Apple related fiasco.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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