The new Intel-driven Macs -- believed to be new PowerBooks -- are on track to be released June 2006. Read the full story.

The podcast opens with sad news about Derrek of Skepticality, who appears to have suffered a stroke, then discusses two sites of note: the Geek 4x4 podcast and the new gamer dad blog, Day in the Life of a Gamer. Finally there's a review of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, a novel about the present day Internet, and those who immerse themselves in it.