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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by Squarespace what's your favorite food what's your favorite drink what's your favorite video game dude how's the cat doing what do you think about chromebooks are they worth it what do you think about the future of the macbook pro line what do you think's next for Apple is the ipod classic dead would you stop asking questions about apple and why is like I know I here instead of John it's asked the Buffalo from techno Buffalo hey what is going on everybody and welcome to ask the Buffalo brought to you this week by our friends at Squarespace I'm Noah cravat sitting in for jon rettinger who's going to be sitting in for Noah Kravitz on Friday doing the rumor roundup as always on Wednesday John Q doing what whats the apps although we might have to play musical guys hosting the video show at some point and get get John cuter than where the shows anyway I'm doing ask the Buffalo this week it's technobuffalo show where it's all about your questions answered by us you can hit us up with your questions always on the website just go look every week we post a call for questions go look for ask the buffalo or just type in your search engine and choice their type like that really fast ask the Buffalo TechnoBuffalo and you'll find the article you can post your questions in the comments or you can use that Twitter thing that all the kids are talking about go to Twitter and if you want to be extra nice about it direct the question to John's Twitter account at John for lakers or don't just make sure you include the hashtag ask the BAS kthe be and we will find your questions pick some of them answer some of them all right first question on the website comes from Oliver goldsboro who wants to know what do we think the future is for the ipod classic as it turns 10 years old this year in 2011 launch 10 years ago the future it's going away the dinosaur just like everything stirring with the dinosaurs eventually does it's actually kind of funny last week towards the end of last week some articles I read online harkening back to something bill gates of all people said years ago that the mobile use a player device of choice is not going to be a standalone music player it's eventually going to be the mobile phone because technology just always gets cheaper faster and smaller and so we kind of 44 saw a time when you'd be able to cram everything from a self from a digital camera to a music player to a web browser to everything else in your cell phone and that time was pretty much here certainly for a lot of people people who can afford the higher end phones but you know so many of the phones now have music players they have either flash stores or removable storage they have three nine millimeter headphone jacks and they can work as music players so the ipod classic hanging on for dear life there i think as the price of flash memory gets lower and lower and so you move up those increments 32 gigs to 64 2 128 22 56 pretty soon there won't be a need for an ipod classic because the ipod touch and the iphone in apple's case will have those larger flash memory chips built into them at the same price point so i think that's what's going to do it and you're just going to see the you know smartphones in apple's case the iphone line and the ipod touch line although rumors about the ipod touch possibly getting 3g data and all it gets happening this year but i can see it happening where apple just you know kind of moves further and further away from the reliance on voice contracts and all that kind of stuff but at any rate ipod classic mmm I'd say the odds are about 70 30 against seeing a new ipod classic this fall maybe even a t20 but i'll give it at least twenty percent chance all right gabriel and i'm going to pronounce your last name wrong I'm sorry I apologize in advance Gabriel Inga marcin wants to know if the Chromebook is worth it I am still waiting on my own Chromebook I went to Google i/o this year and was eligible I got my galaxy tab limited edition at the conference but all of us who were eligible for Chromebooks which promotes everybody who was a registered attendee of the conference samsung and google providing Chromebooks but they weren't on site you had to you know sign up for it and then we got an email letting us know what the deal was basically we got a promo code to go to amazon.com order the Samsung Chromebook put in the promo code so you would get the full 499 off the price so the price is free and place your order and depending on when you ordered some people we're going to get them delivered within like a week or two other people like me way out till August so I know two other people who we all went and ordered ours within 15 minutes of each other one of them his delivery time was like two weeks out the other two of us was over a month into August so mine last time I checked was august 3rd to the 10th was my delivery window I have to go check after I finished this video and see the deal is but all that being said I got to play with a Chromebook a little bit and I was there at i/o when they launched them and announce them and I think it's going to be most worth it for people who don't want to deal with tech support at all because the tech support is built into the price if you're a business or education user and the whole idea is that you know there won't be a lot of OS patching and downloading updates and all that kind of stuff because of the way that the whole chrome system is is developed that being said for the price points that they're at right now you could pick up a windows laptop or a UNIX laptop you could pick up a netbook you could page us a little bit more and pick up an Android or iOS or a webos for that matter tablet so I don't know that the average user the average consumer is really going to see a lot of value in the Chromebook remains to be seen a lot of it has to do with you know what does Google do what do they do with the chrome OS with it they do with the App Store how much do they really put behind it to build it out and you know a consumer platform or you know how is it running parallel with Android and androids really the big consumer platform right now but I think Chromebooks could be interesting in places like education and in business and enterprise use where so much money is spent on tech support tech support people and you know just the time it takes to do all the upgrades and the maintenance and that kind of stuff and I think that's where the whole Chromebook thing could be interesting but for consumers I don't want to say note so I've had one to use I've used one a little bit you know some other people let me use theirs and it's interesting but it all just depends how much software is out there and you know even then for the price point I don't know oh wait and see all right Raja zman from Twitter wants to know hey I'm Raja from Dubai can I be a tech reviewer here yeah sure why not anybody can I mean 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off when you sign up in July just enter the coupon code techno 7te CH n Oh new four five six seven techno seven thanks again to squarespace com we're sponsoring this week's episode of techno Buffalo ask the Buffalo now back to those questions all right and last but certainly not least van Snipes I like that name van Snipes fan Snipes starring wesley snipes and vance knives van Snipes on the website wants to know what tech product were most excited to get our hands on this year ah the answer honestly is the one I haven't heard of yet I mean you know there's something coming down the coming down the pike fourth quarter is always the big quarter that's when you know back to school going into the the winter holiday shopping season Chrismukkah as they say in certain parts of the United States those aren't the only holidays but it's just that's when a lot of stuff comes out loud new products a lot of people spending their money on Christmas gifts and all that kind of stuff so I'm always hoping this time of year or coming in this time of year that there's something just really cool and mind-blowing and just game-changing that hasn't been leaked yet that's going to come out you know kind of around that Halloween Thanksgiving time frame that being said the product that i have heard a little bit about that i'm most excited for might surprise you but something new is coming from so knows who makes these really awesome but really expensive wireless music systems but they're just great and with all these services now like Spotify that just launched and RTI oh and mog and rhapsody and all these services where you can pay you know five or ten bucks a month and basically get you know this unlimited massive music collections it's just so cool because I can use my smartphone to control the thing and find whatever song I want to find then play it through the sonos and different parts of the house and so there rumor there's some leaked photos with an article on the site you can check it out about a lower cost sonos product or we think it's a little cost because it's smaller looks like it's clear the FCC it's going to be coming out sometime we zoom in the next you know next couple of months who knows I might come out next week but the next few months so I'm psyched to see what that is because I would love to see a lower-cost sonos product just to make it cheaper and easier to use that system because it awesome and one of the things they did was they develop their own wireless technology so even though things like apples airtunes and airplay does the same thing the somos just works better because it's their own wireless mesh network and it just it's killer it really works well but it's really expensive so I'd love to see that get cheaper and you know things like the PlayStation Vita and audi a7 that's a tech product sort of car I can't afford the tesla model s there's a lot of stuff out there for sure but the sonos and then that thing I haven't thought of whoever's out there Apple Sony Microsoft nokia HTC HTC I don't know who you are but make that product put it out this year and that's the answer my question all right that does it for this week's ask the Buffalo again John will be doing John R will be doing the rumor roundup this friday john q whats the apps on wednesday as always and then next week one of the John's probably jon rettinger but you never know maybe we'll switch it up again we'll be back in the ask the buffalo spot so if you have a question go to the website look for the ass the buffalo call out every week or just put it up on twitter with the hashtag ask the bee and that's how we find the questions that's how we try to answer them for you and like the like the man asked from Dubai if you want to be a reviewer write something up send it in to us use that get featured link on our home page and we're always looking we're always looking for good people so that's how you get involved all right again thanks to our friends at 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