Episode 27 is brought to you by Coopers Pale Ale and features Peter Wells (fulltimecasual), Christopher Kahler (arkenstone), Alexander Reid (Al Aero) and Anthony Agius (Decryption).

Show notes:

• Forum Standards
• Queensland government stifling Macs in state schools (link)
• Working Families = No More Salary Sacrifice (link)
• Dude steals a Mac and is caught by Back To Your Mac (link)
• iTablet soon? German Intel CEO spills the beans (link)
• New Get a Mac ads/is it time to move on from Mac & PC? (link)
• OfficeWorks, Good Guys, Harvey Norman, Norman Ross, Joyce Mayne, Brashes
• Xbox Media Centre on a Mac & Xbox 360 + Mac
• More GTA4 & Zero Punctuation Video Review (link)
• Call Optus & be asked about the iPhone
• Encarta Redux
• MT Book Club: Inside Steve's Head & oPtion$
• Apps: TapeDeck, Microsoft Office 2008 SP1, fbCal, WWDC '08 Countdown Widget
• Quicky WWDC discussion (link)
• The Boston & Sydney Store (link)
• MacTalk Mobile Safari site (link)
• MacTalk Brisbane & Perth Meets this Sunday (link)

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You should have used the picture from the mactalk meets for your podcast.

Let's be an Australian forum, and spell behaviour with the 'u' it deserves!

Damn you Google and spell check! I had it with the u, but safari said it was wrong, so I put it into Google to double check and it of course, said it was right. I didn't even know there was an American spelling and an Australian/UK spelling

Here's a thought, could Apple be thinking about a Macbook Kindle?

With the discussions about the Intel Germany leak on a tablet sized device, did anyone consider that Apple might release an eBook/mini tablet. Imagine an eBook with a touch screen that you can flick the pages (three finger flick).

I have a Sony PRS 505 ebook reader and whilst it is good to read the buttons are clunky and they limit the available functions. Now if Apple had something the size of a paperback (or Kindle/Sony Reader), that also could access the internet, mail, ipod touch style, then I would probably be the second one to order it. (Let's face it, no-one will beat decryption at ordering the first apple anything).

Just a thought...

Damn straight!

It would surprise me if Apple haven't got anything planned for the Atom CPU, but whether it goes past Steve Jobs to actually be a product, is anyone's guess.

Harvey Norman don't sell them because Apple started selling online in Australia. harvey Norman had just agreed to sell Apple and were none to pleased that Apple neglected to mention they were entering the market themselves. Gerry Harvey (a man who will hold a grudge) stated at the time he will never sell Apple Computers again. He does treat the iPod different and I assume the iPhone.

However computers he won't move on. Also given the margins on Apple computers not really a lot of upside for them in each sale so might as well sell a HP and make more money.

Once again another sweet podcast!

I had a feeling that the Sydney Apple store would get delayed actually.... maybe because the iPhone is delayed too?

Just a thought on Mac''s on Windows networks; it's a *real* pain from an IT perspective to get Macs to play nice with Microsoft infrastructure.

As far as a school's concerned (I'm guessing running Server 2000, 2003, or 2008) you can't enforce group policy, you can't really join them to the domain, and managing the client and the software is really very difficult.

You can boot-camp them but then there's no real reason to have a Mac in the first place.

This goes back to a conversation on Twitter; apple needs to move into small/medium businesses slowly using something like the iPhone 2.0 to pave the way.

Yet as a major shareholder of Domayne, he still sells Apple Computers, albeit in a round about way.

Hi there, I just wanted to make a correction in regards to the topic about the iPhones frequency, Telstra & AT&T are not the only phone companies that run the 3G 850MHz system, other countries include Brazil (CLARO), Colombia (ComCel SA) and Mexico (TelCel) (GSM World - GSM Global Networks on Air) also Canadas Rogers Vision network runs 850 (Rogers Wireless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Interesting

I'm not sure how Brazil, Colombia and Mexico factor into telecommunications trends, but Canada would I guess..

Thanks for the mention

Those South American companies mentioned are part of the greater América Móvil network, with about 150 million subscribers, which has signed on to sell the new iPhones. So yeah, they're massive alright.

Canada is actually an even lesser player in the telecommunications market and until just recently (CMIIW), only having one GSM provider, Rogers Wireless which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications, a privately owned company.

any news on ep 28? i feel the void that the absence of a new podcast creates