On this week's podcast, just to change things up a bit--we kick things off with Brian Heater and his "Hot 5 in 5" segment, where he feverishly relays the top five blog stories of the week in just 5 minutes. We're then joined first by Cisco Cheng, lead notebook analyst for PC Magazine. Cisco talks about his upcoming review (on PCMag.com) of the Classmate PC, Intel's answer to the OLPC XO laptop. We compare the two and also talk about the Asus Eee (and we learn how to pronounce "Asus").

In the second half, news reporter Chloe Albanesius stops by to update us on the newest developments in the Microsoft-bids-for-Yahoo! saga. Then an especially velvet-voiced features editor Dan Evans joins us to talk about freaky love-tech; and finally, stay tuned for this week's Weird Gear, lovingly selected by Jen "the Weird Hunter" DeLeo.

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Hosts: Carol Mangis, Jen DeLeo, Brian Heater
Guests: Cisco Cheng, Chloe Albanesius, Dan "Freaky Geek" Evans
Audio Engineer: Scott Bernstein
Theme Music: Terry Sullivan
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