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As we head into E3 2012 and presumably see new consoles get announced released like the Wii U and hopefully the next generation Xbox 360 and PS4, the console wars will come back much like a mighty bear it's hibernating but it will eventually wake up again. So, hopefully that helps answer your question.

Our next question comes from Louis Holas, who actually I met at the London meetup that we had just a few months back. This is Louis Holas, who asks "Do you think Apple will bring out a 7-inch iPad to compete with the Kindle Fire?" So if you guys are tech fiends or you'd just like to keep up with the tech world, you'll know that Amazon released a Fire on the world today this is not the BlackBerry Playbook, this is in fact the Kindle Fire that came out this week. Depending on what day you're watching this video, it's a seven-inch tablet that uses Amazon's obviously really robust digital distribution system to bring content to your device for TV, video, and of course for books. They're not the only seven-inch competitor on the market; Barnes and Noble also announced and released their Nook Tablet to very nicely sit with the Nook Simple Touch and the Nook Color. There have been rumors of Apple releasing an iPad Mini or iPad Micro, whatever they might want to call it, of the seven-inch variety, and actually that was claims that we heard um get validated in the Steve Jobs autobiography. Jonathan Ive, one of Apple's lead designers, said they laid out a ton of different screen sizes and Steve Jobs picked the size that he liked eventually ended up being a 9.7 inch green. Other sizes do exist, you've heard rumors and grumblings that Apple was thinking about releasing another model, but I think if anything the iPad screen is going to get bigger not smaller. I think we're going to see a widescreen format iPad, probably a 10-inch screen coming out presumably with the iPad 3. I do not think we're getting smaller than a seven-inch base; I don't think that's a really niche that Apple wants to compete in.

Speaking of silly transitions, let me go ahead and take a minute to thank our friends and sponsors. The folks that keeps the lights on, the camera rolling, and food in my belly. I want to thank Audible.com unless you've been living under a rock, chances are you've heard of Audible.com. It is the leading provider of downloadable digital audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Audible's got over 100,000 titles to choose from to be downloaded to your iPod, MP3 player, Android device, and played back anywhere anytime; like in the car that jam are my two favorites. Choose from books in every genre including science fiction, thrillers, drama, comedy, business history, and more. If you want to go and check out Audible and you want to maybe get a book and listen to it, go to audiblepodcast.com techno for your free audiobook. Go to audible podcast slash techno; get your free audio book give it a shot. Show your support for the Techno Buffalo Peeps; we certainly appreciate it, and you're getting a really cool product in return.

Our next question comes from user Splat, who asks "Apple's MacBook Air received an update recently and with news of the upcoming 15-inch super thin laptops coming next year do you think the MacBook Pros will receive a major facelift soon?" You may be referring to the ultrabooks that are coming out now; they are super-thin PCs that are sort of reminiscent of the MacBook Air. The 15-inch model that you're referring to may very well end up being a MacBook Air line and may perhaps drop the MacBook Pro moniker from the line. So, presumably we're going to see thinner, sleeker probably wedge-shaped 15-inch MacBook Pros if you want to get a MacBook Pro that has a disk drive now is the time to do it because I'm just guessing that we are no longer going to see those disk drives be present; we saw them leave in the MacBook Air. And I think we're going sounds like a like an airline, MacBook Airlines, can you imagine flying on MacBook Airlines? I bet it would look super modern. It'd be like flying in a giant IKEA, but I digress. I think we're going to see a 15-inch model very reminiscent of the 11 and 13-inch MacBook Air models that we have right now just larger. So hopefully that helps answer your question.

Thank you guys for tuning in and watching another episode of Ask the Buffalo; I'm your host John Rettinger from Technobuffalo, your one-stop source for unboxing reviews news and bad jokes and everything from the world of technology. I will see you guys in the next video, don't laugh that's not funny.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis episode of techno buffalo is brought to you by audible and hendrick my imaginary friend this week on technobuffalo we're going to talk tablets we're going to talk about the kindle fire we're going to talk about the nook tablet we're going to decide whether or not it's a good time for you to get a laptop we're going to talk about the console wars whether or not xbox or 360 is the right one for you of course we're going to talk cell phones ios and android this is ask the buffalo welcome back everyone to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host john rettinger and this is the chance to ask me anything that you want to know from the wide world of technology if you want to know why your mom won't let you have a tv in your room you want to know which tablet's best for you you don't know whether or not you should wait before you get your next laptop this is the place to be and where you can get your questions answered this is ask the buffalo let's go ahead and get started our first question has to do with the mobile side of the world and this comes from tad pementel he wants to know is the galaxy nexus phone that will be coming out be outdated by quad cores or is this phone safe from being outdated for a while it seems like every few days there's a new flagship android device coming out and quad core is coming uh nvidia has announced their tegra 3 processor uh which is not going to have just four cores actually gonna have five cores which is gonna result in better battery life so we're gonna see them presumably in december first in the tablet world and then it'll start transitioning out to phones there's always something new coming out anything you have that's new and shiny today as soon as you take it off the lot if i can use a car analogy it's going to be outdated so the best thing i can say is to get something that's good for you right now that you think is going to last you for the next few years and a few things that you need to know when you do that lte is becoming standard if you're buying a new phone right now whether you are on a t whether or not you're on verizon you want a phone that has lte even if you don't have lte service where you live you might have it throughout the next two years uh and if you're on t-mobile you want to get a phone that has support for their 4g network hopefully they're 42.4 hspa plus 4g network and sprint are kind of left in a limbo they're not really going to have wimax around for the next two years but it's still kind of here as they transition to lte so for sprint you want to get a phone that's going to be good for you now and hopefully we'll have fast enough data speeds over the next two years so to answer your question yes the galaxy nexus is going to be a tremendous phone and yes it's going to be outdated in the spec department but specs don't make the phone the user experience does an ice cream sandwich the version of android running on the galaxy nexus was made just for that device you're going to get a tremendous user experience so even though phones may have better specs they may not outperform your shiny new phone our next question comes from user eric the flash who asks which i would try and say with an accent if i can do accents hi john when do you think the next ice cream sandwich device comes out and is the galaxy nexus going to come out on other carriers beside verizon uh so we'll see ice cream sandwich first come out on the galaxy nexus then we should see it on several other devices going into 2012 for the first few months so the second part of your question there will be a galaxy nexus available for other carriers but not necessarily released by other carriers and if i could explain there's going to be a version using lte for verizon but there's also going to be a pentaband unlocked gsm version and that's sort of fancy tech jargon what that means is that if you are on a t you're on t-mobile or you're on really any network that uses a sim card you could pop your sim card in there and you can get 3g speeds so what you might not be able to walk into an eight t store at least not yet and pick up a galaxy nexus you'll be able to buy one unlocked from a ton of retailers pop in your sim card and be good to go our next question comes from bresen franco and he wants to talk about something that we did a little while back called the console wars he's asking is there going to be a new episode of the console wars case you want to know what that is it was an epic 12 round battle between the xbox 360 and the ps3 as they clashed head to head as we declared a winner and a winner was declared in season one in season two it was the dawn of motion controls and we compared the kinect and the ps move and a winner was also declared uh since that has ended there hasn't been a reason to bring back season three of the console wars quite yet we don't want to do them just for the sake of doing them we want to make sure there's something interesting to discuss so as we head into e3 in 2012 and presumably we start seeing new consoles get announced released like the wii u and hopefully the next generation xbox 360 and ps4 the console wars will come back much like a mighty bear it's hibernating but it will eventually wake up again so hopefully that helps answer your question our next question comes one of my friends who actually i met at the london meetup that we had just a few months back this is louis holas who asks do you think apple will bring out a 7-inch ipad to compete with the kindle fire so if you guys are tech fiends or you'd just like to keep up with the tech world you'll know that amazon released a fire on the world today this is not the blackberry playbook this is in fact the kindle fire that came out this week depending on what day you're watching this video it is a seven-inch tablet that uses amazon's obviously really robust digital distribution system uh to bring content to your device for tv video and of course for books they're not the only seven-inch competitor on the market barnes and noble not want to be left out announced and released their nook tablet to very nicely sit with the nook simple touch and the nook color there have been rumors of apple releasing an ipad mini or ipad micro whatever they might want to call it uh of the seven inch variety and actually that was claims that we heard um get validated in the steve jobs autobiography jonathan ive one of apple's lead designers said they laid out a ton of different screen sizes and steve jobs picked the size that he liked eventually ended up being a 9.7 inch green so other sizes do exist you've heard rumors and grumblings that apple was thinking about releasing another model the answer that i have to say to you is i think if anything the ipad screen is going to get bigger not smaller i think we're going to see a widescreen format ipad probably a 10 inch green coming out presumably with the ipad 3. i do not think we're getting smaller than a seven inch base i don't think that's a really a niche that apple wants to compete in so hopefully that helps answer your question and speaking of silly transitions let me go ahead and take a minute to thank our friends and sponsors the folks that keeps the lights on the camera rolling and food in my belly i want to thank audible.com unless you've been living under a rock chances are you've heard of audible.com it is the leading provider of downloadable digital audio books and spoken word entertainment audible's got over 100 000 titles to choose from to be downloaded to your ipod mp3 player android device and played back anywhere anytime like the car that jam are my two favorites choose from books in every genre including science fiction thrillers drama comedy business history and more if you want to go and check out audible and you want to maybe get a book and listen to a go to audiblepodcast.com techno for your free audiobook go to audible podcast slash techno get your free audio book give it a shot show your support for the techno buffalo peeps we certainly appreciate it and you're getting a really cool product in return so audible.com our next question comes from user splat he asks apple's macbook air received an update recently and with news of the upcoming 15 inch super thin laptops coming next year do you think the macbook pros will receive a major facelift soon you may be referring to the ultrabooks that are coming out now they are super thin pcs that are sort of reminiscent of the macbook air the 15-inch model that you're referring to may very well end up being a macbook air line and may perhaps drop the macbook pro moniker from the line so presumably we're going to see thinner sleeker probably wedge-shaped 15-inch macbook pros if you want to get a macbook pro that has a disk drive now is the time to do it because i'm just guessing that we are no longer going to see those disk drives be present we saw them leave in the macbook airline and i think we're going sounds like a like an airline macbook airlines can you imagine flying on macbook airlines i bet it would look super modern it'd be like flying in a giant ikea but i digress i think we're going to see a 15-inch model very reminiscent of the 11 and 13 inch macbook air models that we have right now just larger so hopefully that helps answer your question thank you guys for tuning in and watching another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host john rettinger from technobuffalo your one-stop source for unboxing reviews news and bad jokes and everything from the world of technology i will see you guys in the next video don't laugh that's not funnythis episode of techno buffalo is brought to you by audible and hendrick my imaginary friend this week on technobuffalo we're going to talk tablets we're going to talk about the kindle fire we're going to talk about the nook tablet we're going to decide whether or not it's a good time for you to get a laptop we're going to talk about the console wars whether or not xbox or 360 is the right one for you of course we're going to talk cell phones ios and android this is ask the buffalo welcome back everyone to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host john rettinger and this is the chance to ask me anything that you want to know from the wide world of technology if you want to know why your mom won't let you have a tv in your room you want to know which tablet's best for you you don't know whether or not you should wait before you get your next laptop this is the place to be and where you can get your questions answered this is ask the buffalo let's go ahead and get started our first question has to do with the mobile side of the world and this comes from tad pementel he wants to know is the galaxy nexus phone that will be coming out be outdated by quad cores or is this phone safe from being outdated for a while it seems like every few days there's a new flagship android device coming out and quad core is coming uh nvidia has announced their tegra 3 processor uh which is not going to have just four cores actually gonna have five cores which is gonna result in better battery life so we're gonna see them presumably in december first in the tablet world and then it'll start transitioning out to phones there's always something new coming out anything you have that's new and shiny today as soon as you take it off the lot if i can use a car analogy it's going to be outdated so the best thing i can say is to get something that's good for you right now that you think is going to last you for the next few years and a few things that you need to know when you do that lte is becoming standard if you're buying a new phone right now whether you are on a t whether or not you're on verizon you want a phone that has lte even if you don't have lte service where you live you might have it throughout the next two years uh and if you're on t-mobile you want to get a phone that has support for their 4g network hopefully they're 42.4 hspa plus 4g network and sprint are kind of left in a limbo they're not really going to have wimax around for the next two years but it's still kind of here as they transition to lte so for sprint you want to get a phone that's going to be good for you now and hopefully we'll have fast enough data speeds over the next two years so to answer your question yes the galaxy nexus is going to be a tremendous phone and yes it's going to be outdated in the spec department but specs don't make the phone the user experience does an ice cream sandwich the version of android running on the galaxy nexus was made just for that device you're going to get a tremendous user experience so even though phones may have better specs they may not outperform your shiny new phone our next question comes from user eric the flash who asks which i would try and say with an accent if i can do accents hi john when do you think the next ice cream sandwich device comes out and is the galaxy nexus going to come out on other carriers beside verizon uh so we'll see ice cream sandwich first come out on the galaxy nexus then we should see it on several other devices going into 2012 for the first few months so the second part of your question there will be a galaxy nexus available for other carriers but not necessarily released by other carriers and if i could explain there's going to be a version using lte for verizon but there's also going to be a pentaband unlocked gsm version and that's sort of fancy tech jargon what that means is that if you are on a t you're on t-mobile or you're on really any network that uses a sim card you could pop your sim card in there and you can get 3g speeds so what you might not be able to walk into an eight t store at least not yet and pick up a galaxy nexus you'll be able to buy one unlocked from a ton of retailers pop in your sim card and be good to go our next question comes from bresen franco and he wants to talk about something that we did a little while back called the console wars he's asking is there going to be a new episode of the console wars case you want to know what that is it was an epic 12 round battle between the xbox 360 and the ps3 as they clashed head to head as we declared a winner and a winner was declared in season one in season two it was the dawn of motion controls and we compared the kinect and the ps move and a winner was also declared uh since that has ended there hasn't been a reason to bring back season three of the console wars quite yet we don't want to do them just for the sake of doing them we want to make sure there's something interesting to discuss so as we head into e3 in 2012 and presumably we start seeing new consoles get announced released like the wii u and hopefully the next generation xbox 360 and ps4 the console wars will come back much like a mighty bear it's hibernating but it will eventually wake up again so hopefully that helps answer your question our next question comes one of my friends who actually i met at the london meetup that we had just a few months back this is louis holas who asks do you think apple will bring out a 7-inch ipad to compete with the kindle fire so if you guys are tech fiends or you'd just like to keep up with the tech world you'll know that amazon released a fire on the world today this is not the blackberry playbook this is in fact the kindle fire that came out this week depending on what day you're watching this video it is a seven-inch tablet that uses amazon's obviously really robust digital distribution system uh to bring content to your device for tv video and of course for books they're not the only seven-inch competitor on the market barnes and noble not want to be left out announced and released their nook tablet to very nicely sit with the nook simple touch and the nook color there have been rumors of apple releasing an ipad mini or ipad micro whatever they might want to call it uh of the seven inch variety and actually that was claims that we heard um get validated in the steve jobs autobiography jonathan ive one of apple's lead designers said they laid out a ton of different screen sizes and steve jobs picked the size that he liked eventually ended up being a 9.7 inch green so other sizes do exist you've heard rumors and grumblings that apple was thinking about releasing another model the answer that i have to say to you is i think if anything the ipad screen is going to get bigger not smaller i think we're going to see a widescreen format ipad probably a 10 inch green coming out presumably with the ipad 3. i do not think we're getting smaller than a seven inch base i don't think that's a really a niche that apple wants to compete in so hopefully that helps answer your question and speaking of silly transitions let me go ahead and take a minute to thank our friends and sponsors the folks that keeps the lights on the camera rolling and food in my belly i want to thank audible.com unless you've been living under a rock chances are you've heard of audible.com it is the leading provider of downloadable digital audio books and spoken word entertainment audible's got over 100 000 titles to choose from to be downloaded to your ipod mp3 player android device and played back anywhere anytime like the car that jam are my two favorites choose from books in every genre including science fiction thrillers drama comedy business history and more if you want to go and check out audible and you want to maybe get a book and listen to a go to audiblepodcast.com techno for your free audiobook go to audible podcast slash techno get your free audio book give it a shot show your support for the techno buffalo peeps we certainly appreciate it and you're getting a really cool product in return so audible.com our next question comes from user splat he asks apple's macbook air received an update recently and with news of the upcoming 15 inch super thin laptops coming next year do you think the macbook pros will receive a major facelift soon you may be referring to the ultrabooks that are coming out now they are super thin pcs that are sort of reminiscent of the macbook air the 15-inch model that you're referring to may very well end up being a macbook air line and may perhaps drop the macbook pro moniker from the line so presumably we're going to see thinner sleeker probably wedge-shaped 15-inch macbook pros if you want to get a macbook pro that has a disk drive now is the time to do it because i'm just guessing that we are no longer going to see those disk drives be present we saw them leave in the macbook airline and i think we're going sounds like a like an airline macbook airlines can you imagine flying on macbook airlines i bet it would look super modern it'd be like flying in a giant ikea but i digress i think we're going to see a 15-inch model very reminiscent of the 11 and 13 inch macbook air models that we have right now just larger so hopefully that helps answer your question thank you guys for tuning in and watching another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host john rettinger from technobuffalo your one-stop source for unboxing reviews news and bad jokes and everything from the world of technology i will see you guys in the next video don't laugh that's not funny\n"