Welcome to this week's episode of the LifeHacker podcast. It is October 25th, and this week we are talking about the impending Windows 8 launch, Apple's new laptops, desktops, and iPads, and freedom of speech on the internet.

We're also answering your questions about what to do when you're overqualified for a job, journaling with Dropbox, and building a super PVR slash home theater PC combo.

And as always, we will be going through our favorite tips and Witson Gordon. I'm Adam Dodgers. And we've got got Alan Henry joining us on Skype. Hey Alan. Hey, what's going on? Not much, just a lot of Apple News and Windows news coming out of the pipes. Let's get started. Yeah, well, let's jump right in. iPad mini. Yeah. Cool, moving on.

Honestly, whatever.

It's a mini iPad.

It's not like that exciting.

Yeah, it's exciting for me because I've been wanting a smaller iPad for two years.

Yeah.

If you like the look of kind of the smaller Galaxy or the Nexus 7 type stuff, the iPad is cool I guess um but it's honestly

it's nothing we haven't known for a year the specs are good it's the same resolution as the big

iPad which means that you don't want it you won't have to it isn't it's not retina I've that's what

I was confused about that and I looked it up last night it's's not retina. It's the same as the iPad too.

Sorry, yeah.

So it's the same resolution to the old iPad,

but the point being that, you know,

developers aren't gonna have to rewrite their apps

for a definition of screen like they did

with the iPhone 5.

I thought that was kind of cool.

Honestly, that was my biggest takeaway from the event.

I was like, oh, nice touch app. touch out yeah well i mean they have the then and then there's the retina macbook uh pro 13 inch yep

that's pretty cool they refreshed the mac mini line and the the iMac is now really deceptively thin

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