Recorded just a few hours ago, Ben and I talk about the iPad 2.

And a huge thanks to this episode’s sponsors for being the inaugural sponsors of The B&B Podcast. Episode 2 is proudly sponsored by Instapaper and NoteTask.

Who knows… Maybe we’ll see something like this today.

The B&B Podcast is a brand-new technology talk show co-hosted by Mr. Benjamin Brooks and yours truly. It’s a lot of fun and the logo is amazing if I do say so myself.

The name B&B is for Blanc and Brooks. But it also pays homage to a hole-in-the-wall diner back in my hometown of Castle Rock, Colorado: The B&B Cafe. The B&B Cafe is where my grandfather ate breakfast every day for about 30 years. The folks are friendly, the food is homemade, and you can sit and talk for hours.

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A website by my friend Josh Ink. Using the API, pretty much anything you can do from within the app you can do on this site (except take pictures and apply cheesy filters to them).

So get this: I had never even heard of Fruit Memory until Paul Mayne booked this sponsorship to promote it. I like to check out what is being sponsored, and after checking out Fruit Memory it may be my new favorite game for the iPad. It’s just plain cute. And it’s just a buck in the app store.

I’m not really a game person — I don’t own a video game console and I rarely play games on my Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Mostly because they’re addicting and I can think of other ways to spend my free time. But I like games like Fruit Memory because it’s chill, non-addictive, and still high quality and entertaining. And the multi-player gameplay is very well done.

Oh yeah, and thanks Paul for sponsoring the RSS Feed!

The new MBPs have “huge leaps in performance”, yet still ship with 5400-rpm hard drives? True, the average consumer still assumes that processor speed is the number one factor to get a faster computer. But performance is more than how fast you can crunch a video, it’s also how fast you can boot up your library, move files around, etc… You and I both know that once you go SSD you never go back.

So why not at least make 7200-rpm drives the baseline? Is the price and performance difference between a 5400- and 7200-rpm drive really that different?

Speaking of SSDs, I put a Mercury Extreme Solid State Drive into my 3-year-old aluminum MacBook Pro last fall and it was like buying a new computer. In fact, thanks to the SSD, the specs on my old MBP match almost identically those of the brand new Air’s.

Versions, Resume, AirDrop… what used to be the geeky power-user’s add ons and hacks are becoming mainstream features.

This thing is stupid fast — 20 times faster than a USB 2 connection — plus it supports data, power, and video I/O simultaneously.

Just a buck in the Mac App Store. I rarely, rarely do video chat on Skype or iChat. And I always text my friends first before calling them on FaceTime. It just seems so personal — much more personal than a casual phone conversation.