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A couple of days ago I posted [Create New Products on Skype?->] On a related theme, in his post, The Hardware Costs For A Newbie Podcaster, Richard Giles explains how a newbie can start podcasting on a very small budget, and even for free.

Says Richard:

The total cost of the hardware for me to start was zero dollars. That’s right, nada. I cheated; a mate of mine gave me a USB microphone (a $50 Logitech headset if you need to buy one). That’s all I needed to record a show. These days basic recording software comes with the operating system, so that isn’t even a factor.

I’ll confess though. I did spend $32 on [Audio Hijack Pro->http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/]. I wanted to record interviews over [Skype->http://skype.com/], and on the [OS X->http://www.apple.com/macosx] platform, it was the easiest way. For months though, that’s all I needed.

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Changing to an Apple Powerbook

Came across this last night from Tom Parish and couldn’t resist including it — for PC users as a typical example of why people prefer Mac, and for the many Mac users who will enjoy hearing their platform praised by a new “convert”

Well, I did it. I made the move to an Apple Powerbook (12″) for office work and remote audio recording. There were two basic reasons for the change. One was simply feeling tired of the hassle of dealing with virus related issues and managing a firewall with a PC laptop.

It always seemed that the PC laptop no matter how new slowed down with use, regardless of the constant fiddling, defragging, de-virusing and all that stuff that you just assumed you had no other choice but to endure. Other issues like battery life never quite hit the mark for me on the PC laptop either.

On the software side I realized I had meet one of my business goals of moving all my project management, email and nearly every SEO related support tool to the web. I also realized that the Podcasting recording and editing software I use runs on the Mac as well as the PC. So, I sold some of my studio equipment and turned the Powerbook into my remote recording studio and general use laptop while traveling to clients.

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