The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 7

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• sp3x0ps - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link

  Great job guys, really enjoyed listening, keep up the great work, looking forward to the iPhone 5 review, hopefully you go into the small details that haven't been discussed yet by other websites.

• scavio - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link

  Had some audio issues with this one, but still very entertaining. It's nice to listen to a podcast where to participants actually know what they are talking about and don't try to talk over each other in the name of entertainment.
  
  I also wanted to throw in a thank you to Brian for saying that antennagate was in fact real and not pretending like it never happened like some other sites/podcasts out there.

• dishayu - Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - link

  I think you should get Kristian on board and do an SSD episode discussing how different types of NANDs work, real life implications of different NAND types. The performance parameters of SSDs that matter in a real life context. How to pick an SSD (or a hard drive for that matter) while looking at just the benchmarks and theoretical data, etc etc.
  
  And the sound issues from episode 6 seem to have disappeared. So an enjoyable podcast, this one.

• SeleniumGlow - Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - link

  I could follow Brian and his rants despite being a telecom guy with only basic knowledge of optics... I look forward to his rants in future podcasts too, though I wonder if it would be welcome by the rest of the audience...

• TrackSmart - Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - link

  You guys really need to do an article on Smartphone Battery Life & Performance Myths. As this podcast really showed, there are so many tech savvy people doing non-nonsensical things in their attempts to improve battery life, or performance, under Android or iOS. It's because the way these functions really work are a mystery to most of us - and mostly based on bad information gleaned on internet forums.
  
  That's my recommendation for piece. Thanks for the enlightening podcast.

• dmaclaren - Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - link

  I loved your sections on the pressures from companies to alter reviews, and Brian's bit on purplehaze-gate. His knowledge comes through nicely. This was your best podcast.

• noblemo - Thursday, October 4, 2012 - link

  Thank you for the great podcasts and thorough, well-written articles and reviews. I sincerely appreciate the everyone's insights and professionalism.

• moep - Thursday, October 4, 2012 - link

  I stopped listening to Podcasts years ago, but after checking out #1 of the Anandtech Podcast, I look forward to it showing up on my mobile device every week. The pairing of Anand, Brian and Ian is perfect. I can’t get enough of Brian’s fascinating explanations (and rants).
  
  My only suggestion for improvement would be a "personal pick of the week", where you briefly talk about a (possibly obscure) hardware or software product, app or internet service that you have found useful.

• rs541 - Thursday, October 4, 2012 - link

  Thanks for doing these podcasts, I've enjoyed most of them. This one was very low signal-to-noise for me. Granted everyone likes different stuff, and apparently most people liked this, but many of the topics were just very low density, lots of repetition. I have difficulty skipping around using a portable media player while running, scrubbing through a 2 hour podcast on a 2 inch slider. Some podcasts on ITunes have the equivalent of chapters (not sure if that's what they're called). The segments I'm interested in are awesome and the ones I'm not interested in are extraordinarily long! I would love it if you guys could add chapters.

• maximumGPU - Friday, October 5, 2012 - link

  Just to add my voice to the others, love the poscasts! keep them coming!
  As others suggested chapter selection would be a nice addition.