Episode 32 is to be kept away from children and stored in a secure location because Peter Wells (fulltimecasual), Christopher Kahler (arkenstone), Alexander Reid (Al Aero) and Anthony Agius (Decryption) talk a lot of crap.

Show notes:

• Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update (forum thread)
• Telstra Loves iPhone Now (huge forum thread)
• Free Telstra wi-fi for Telstra iPhone customers (forum thread)
• Optus & Azure = lots of free wi-fi too (link)
• Possible iPhone midnight launch (forum thread)
• Poor little 3 (forum thread)
• Hacked up Red Bull can can reduce GSM interference with audio (link)
• Mac Pro & XServe overclocking (forum thread)
• 61% increase in Mac notebook sales (link)
• Civilization 4 rules (Wikipedia)
• iPhone 3G box made out of potato or something (link)
• Danamania's Beer Battered Deep Fried Bacon Double Quarter Pounder (link)
• $199 = consumer tipping point for tech
• ASUS ePC & MacBook Air faceoff
• Random impromptu guest Ryan - MacBook Air owner
• Powderfinger live at Sydney Apple Store
• Blue LED rage
• iPhone Tram Tracker (forum thread)
• We like the Fail Whale (link)
• Apps: 99 Rental.com - Track the $0.99 iTunes Movie of the Week - Force Quit All Apps - ffexport - Official iTunes Remote
• Officeworks to start selling Macs (forum thread)
• Bunnings opening in Hawthorn - yeehaw

Listening now. Does next week's discuss deep fried Mars Bars?

Re: $199 price tipping point.

Source is here:
AppleInsider | Apple following iPod, PS2 model to sell 23m iPhones in one year

A warning about eating packaging even though it's made out of potato: there was a caller on Dr Karl asking about this a while ago and the pesticides they add to the packaging are the least of problems you'd get from ingesting it.

Another great podcast guys. Look forward to the next one when hopefully you have some pricing plans after an announcement.

Treated starch box != tasty potato.

Also, that guy with the PS3, good on you. I have one too and much prefer it to my 360.

If you post a video of Decryption eating the box MacTalk is going to start showing up with some less than reputable sites on Google searches....

Haha, I'm nearly 2/3 through. This time instead of the regular MacBook Air bashing, they had guest commentary. I love it.

More Air bashing? Perhaps it's not worth listening!

I was defending the Air!

You need to live in Sydney for a chunk - Connex are wonderful compared to CityRail...

"Starcraft is balls" – Decryption, 2008.

Tsk.

McDonalds didn't add bacon to burgers back when Dana came up with that recipe!

Ah, running commentary...

Oh man, the MacBook Air.

Apple also sited the keyboard as "not compromising". Of course, the 12" wasn't as wide and still managed a full-size keyboard...

Lack of USB... when I'm not at a desk, I don't need more than one port. When I sit at my desk, I just plug in my keyboard and there's mouse and Ethernet instantly. If I need more, I have a USB hub... that I've never used...

Lack of SuperDrive... I have an external drive full of disc images, and access to plenty of computers with optical drives.

FireWire is the obvious omission, but almost every hard disk has USB2 nowadays. Sucks when I'm playing with my 1st-gen iPod, though I don't think that worries too many people.

Performance... an Air can easily handle browsing, music, IM, Twitter, remote desktops, mail, blah blah all at once. If you're really working on intensive tasks (say, media work... like recording a podcast), of course you'd want a Pro.

Blah. Blah!

Downloaded from iTunes and it cuts out at 58.26...didn't get to find out what was happening at Bunnings :P

http://forums.mactalk.com.au/19/5219...tml#post547865

FTC, if you manage to take photos of the Sydney Apple Store dunny, i'll take photos of the one in Regent Street for a comparison

Where are these toilets? I've been to the store twice and I've seen the elevator and some sort of 'exit' door but didn't look inside, beside the elevator.

Maybe it's a store room or something.