July 18, 2025 • 16 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the triumphant return of the ‘Commodore 64’ AND the uncanny comeback of the personal computer on ‘Tech Thursday’ with regular guest contributor; (author, podcast host, and technology pundit) Marsha Collier - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And Marcia Carlier joins us in studio as she's been
known to do each and every Thursday as a part
of our Tech Thursday segment.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good evening, Marsha, how are you mo?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm doing well. I know you heard our conversation last segment.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I wanted that as kind of elite in about how
quickly our world is changing, how fast technology moves, and
how when I was a kid, I was growing up,
I had an Apple two C. They had the Commodore
sixty four and what have you. And look where we
are now. It's a lot has changed in the intervening years.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, but you know, around the turn of the century,
the US Patent Office closed because they thought everything had
been invented already. So it seems that these innovations come
in waves, destroy them, then we make more stuff. It's
a cycle that keeps going.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Are you ever unsettled? Because technology is what you do.
Do you ever look at a technology and say like, Ooh,
I don't know if our society is ready for it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Uh? You know, it's not me to judge society, but
I often wonder why why do we have to have
like Google Maps had three updates in one week?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What has changed?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Was there a bug?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Now? Shouldn't you have figured that out for the second update?
I mean, how many bugs you know you put out?
I don't understand. It's like a self feeding industry. They
have to make it better and make the buildings three
D on the map, you know, do this, do that?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Do we really need it? How far do we need
to go? And the same thing with Ai.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, But I would say the answer is always competition,
because Google is in competition with any other maps creator
or emerging technology which one wants to take its place exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But people are going to choose in this society the
way we are. You're Apple or you're Android, true, or
you're both, and same thing with politics, you're either one
or the other or you're both.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So you know, people have to just decide what.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Makes them happy, what they need to look for, and
maybe you don't want to load up with a bunch
of apps like it's still on the boat. But I'm
going to be testing out a new Chromebook and see
if I can exist on a chromebook, which chromebooks are
half the price of a regular computer.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And half the capability.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But do I really need all that capability? Okay, I
mean that's the question.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And I don't do video, I don't do audio cuts.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Everything is writing to me. Can I do it?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And you know, it's kind of funny because there was
another person who's in tech, who was on the radio
who said, you know, I go to the event, and
I know because I saw the device in ISA. Unless
you have something in your hands, so you play with
it for a month, you really you can't know how
good it is, how much you enjoy it, because really
(03:27):
the flaws start to show up as you're using it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Speaking of flaws, I remember once upon a time I
had a friend who had a Commodore sixty four and
I thought it was absolutely wonderful. Couldn't do much back then,
but it did a hell of a lot more than
anything else we had at the time.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Remember writing code in you could get a rainbow or
little airplanes flying.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I look, I was pretty good at writing in basic.
I was pretty good at it. That was something when
I first I used to run my computer lab in
high school and we were programming in basic and I
had a very very very rudimentary game that I created.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And it was fun.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, it was fun because.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You had accomplishment. You did something simple basically it wasn't
hard to learn. No, no, not at all, and you
got a reward. Maybe that would be beneficial. But right
now they're coming back. Some guy just went out a
YouTuber and he announced that he bought Commodore. He got
(04:34):
all new everything, every patent, everything that has to do
with it, and he's coming out with the Commodore sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Four again in twenty twenty five. Yeah, and it's on
our screen right now.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What would the Commodore sixty four be able to do
in today's world.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, let me tell you. He's ramped up the interior
just a little bit. Okay, he's got three models, but
basically they all have the same guts. It's got a
an AMD chip, one hundred and twenty eight megabytes of
DDR two RAM, sixteen megabytes of nor flash memory, supports
(05:15):
full HD ten ADP video over video out over HDMI
so you can plug it. Yeah anything plus classic DN eight.
If you remember cvbs S video and RGBO.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You're really going deep. Well, that RGB monitor.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
They want to keep it, you know, just but when
they said has an HDMI cable. I'm going fantastic, right,
this is great, and it comes with which is pretty amazing,
over an amazing amount of games. It's compatible with over
ten thousand of the original Commodore sixty four games.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You have the option to play both cartridges and also
the analog tapes that could be connected to it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Data sets and disk drive, so it had Yeah, I
grew up with the disc drive.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I learned how to spell on the Comedy sixty four.
You could have cartridges, disc like five inch floppy disks
which you barely find nowadays, and the cassette player caste right,
really versatile machine.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So you've got a fan right there.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So Sam, just so you know, the basic version, which
is a copy of the original in boring beige, is
going to come out for.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Two ninety nine ninety nine during pre sale.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Then they have a Starlight Edition for three forty nine
which provides a color changing LED transparent case, so it's
not beige. It's kind of groovy. I don't know if
that would just track to from the games. And they
have a Founder's Addition for four ninety nine that provides
(07:05):
color changing LED translucent case. A twenty four carrot gold
plated badge, satin gold keys, a translucent amber case, and
a commemorative Commodore gold seal.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I love all things retro. I just don't know if
i'd love it for five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, that is a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So for those of you, it's expected to ship in
October and if you want to go.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
To just in time for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah there you what a shot amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But Jese prices are pre order. Just go to commodore
dot net for more information. But another thing.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Is this, you have to tune into our YouTube so
you can see this is very cool.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
What I'm showing is the box for the NES Classic
Edition and this.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Which is an Nintendo Entertainment system.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Go ahead, and it's miniature. It's a miniature old style Nintendo.
It's got thirty classic games built into it, so you
don't have to stick a cartridge.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
At anything, nothing.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And it looks exactly because I wrote eBay for dummies,
I keep everything in the original box.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So it fits in the palm of your hand as
opposed to a game console, which is.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The size of like a laptop.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Caper exactly exactly, and you can use it with just
about anything.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
But the games are all built in. This and this
you can get.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was under fifty dollars when I first got it,
but now it's around one hundred dollars. And there's an
s NES version too, but these are a little cheaper
and with the games built in, can't lose?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now? Is that available? Now? Can I purchase that?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Now?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I looked it up just because I wanted to find
the current prices on it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Uh huh, Yeah, it's available now.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It's the Neees Classic Edition and it's pretty fabulous.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think I might have to go purchase that.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I mean it has Zelda, Super Mario, Free three, Final
Fantasy Things you'd like, Ninja something.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Better have, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong. Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Legend of Zelday's Adventure, pac Man, Metroid, Super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh, now you're speaking of my life right right.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's got games, and it's got Super Mario Brothers three,
Punch Out.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Castle, Yes, and Castlevania.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, Stephan, it's time to yeah show and yeah, my
birthday's coming up in November.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Make it happenpening.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
But this is so cool.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Let's go to break real quickly when we come back.
That's not the only computer news that you have to
share with us, right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, there's always news and computers.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We'll talk about it next with Marshall Collyer. It's Later
with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty OnLive everywhere
in the I Heart Radio.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Kf I AM six forty is Later with mo Kelly
live on social media and the iHeartRadio app. We're still
in conversation with one of our favorite people, a regular commentator,
Marsha Collier, who joins us in studio.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Last segment, she told us.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
About the comeback of the NYES, the Nintendo Entertainment System
and the Commodore sixty four. But that's not the only
comeback in the world of computers.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
What do you think is the hottest gadget of the decade,
of the decade, It's probably not what you think.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I can't pick one item personal computer.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
See I would have said like the smartphone or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You know, everybody has a smartphone, everybody has a tablet,
video game console, got that other electronics, but really none
of them substitute for a laptop.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
True, true, and you need the personal computer.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And obviously sales went through the roof during the pandemic
because everybody had to zoom and everybody was at home
and blah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
What's interesting is that the market is turning around, according
to IDC, and they are the people who know, they
count everybody's sales, that it's going to be a PC world.
I mean, they're going to be laptops galore. It's interesting
desktops are still selling.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Desktops like the towers and everything. Yep. I have just
full disclosure. I have a desktop.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's not a tower, but it's a small computer for
my audio editing at home. I have a laptop which
is PC for audio editing. This just because the auto
editing software doesn't exist on Android. But if I could,
I would just have a Chrome book, which, like your lifestyle,
(11:57):
more fits my lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It doesn't need to do much.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'll just let you know. It is kind of announced
this week that Chrome and Android, Chrome Book, Chrome OS
and Android are going to merge, So that'll be a
story for another day. Hopefully it'll lead to better software.
That's what they're saying and apps, I should say that's
that's what they're saying. So anyway, people are still buying desktops,
(12:23):
believe it or not. People are buying detachable tablets. You know,
the laptops where the tablet snaps off.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I have one of those. I'm not a fan. Neither
am I because it doesn't sit on my lap. It's
not a tablet.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, yeah, I always need the keyboard attached.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, it's a hunk of plastic that you want it
to be a laptop, but it isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Let me see.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Slate tablets are still selling, but that's way down, believe
it or no.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's nothing but notebooks.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
The sales are insane and they are getting stronger and
stronger by the year. And there are a lot of
options that people. There are so many options that you
can get. We talked about chromebook. When you buy a laptop, do.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You want to touch screen?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I actually do.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I have one laptop which is a PC think Pad,
which is not touchscreen. This is touchscreen. I actually appreciate
a touchscreen you do.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I do, maybe because I've used it enough where there
are times where I want to zoom in on something
and I can just gesture it.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I do this to books right right there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I kind of want that, And maybe it's an age thing.
Sometimes I just need to expand that text just a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The fonts a little too small, Yeah, just a little
bit bigger.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
But you know, computers mixed PCs with the tablets and
smartphones making one devices. So you've got the touchstreen screen
laptop and to tablets, and why can't there be especially
with the new Chrome OS and Android going together, why
(14:09):
can't your phone go through your laptop. There's no reason
why it should.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It can. There's they are apps.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't want to get too far afield, but yes,
because of Chrome, everything is SYNCD between my phone and
my laptop, and I can send anything on my phone
to my laptop.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But it's because I know how to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's not as easy for someone who would not have
any experience doing that.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, it's going to be fun, but sales of tablets
and smartphones peaked years ago. Tablets have a niche, but
everybody's got a phone and people are holding onto phones
longer and longer.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now I don't need a tablet if I have a phone,
because as far as I'm concerned, the tablet is.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
A phone that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Can't dial, because my phone is pretty much like a
small tablet, and if I want something larger than that,
I need a real keyboard, which means laptop, not tablet.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You know, I've started dictating to my tablet much of
my phone instead of type typing. I think you just
activated your phone. That was twala, he said, yep, but
it's true. You know you're dictating to your phone. You
don't have to type in its tiny, little, ridiculous keyboard.
We used to have great keyboards, but now not so much.
(15:29):
One week, I have assembled a group of vintage smartphones
that I'll bring in and we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Something that has really helped me is I have a
Bluetooth keyboard that I use with my phone, especially when
I'm traveling, as opposed to taking a full laptop. I'll
just take the keyboard and I can type normally as
if I had a full laptop.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Well, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
On my blog, there's an article about Samsung decks, which
came out eons ago. And that was where you could
control a monitor with your phone right, and that could
be the way to go too.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
But people are loving the laptops for now.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I love how everything old is new again, and as
trends change and people's desires change, something that we already
had might be.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Found useful again.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Just make it better.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Marshall Caryer is always great to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Good to see you. Moan see next week. You better
believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And Marcia Carlier joins us in studio as she's been
known to do each and every Thursday as a part
of our Tech Thursday segment.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good evening, Marsha, how are you mo?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm doing well. I know you heard our conversation last segment.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I wanted that as kind of elite in about how
quickly our world is changing, how fast technology moves, and
how when I was a kid, I was growing up,
I had an Apple two C. They had the Commodore
sixty four and what have you. And look where we
are now. It's a lot has changed in the intervening years.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, but you know, around the turn of the century,
the US Patent Office closed because they thought everything had
been invented already. So it seems that these innovations come
in waves, destroy them, then we make more stuff. It's
a cycle that keeps going.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Are you ever unsettled? Because technology is what you do.
Do you ever look at a technology and say like, Ooh,
I don't know if our society is ready for it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Uh? You know, it's not me to judge society, but
I often wonder why why do we have to have
like Google Maps had three updates in one week?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What has changed?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Was there a bug?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Now? Shouldn't you have figured that out for the second update?
I mean, how many bugs you know you put out?
I don't understand. It's like a self feeding industry. They
have to make it better and make the buildings three
D on the map, you know, do this, do that?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Do we really need it? How far do we need
to go? And the same thing with Ai.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, But I would say the answer is always competition,
because Google is in competition with any other maps creator
or emerging technology which one wants to take its place exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But people are going to choose in this society the
way we are. You're Apple or you're Android, true, or
you're both, and same thing with politics, you're either one
or the other or you're both.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So you know, people have to just decide what.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Makes them happy, what they need to look for, and
maybe you don't want to load up with a bunch
of apps like it's still on the boat. But I'm
going to be testing out a new Chromebook and see
if I can exist on a chromebook, which chromebooks are
half the price of a regular computer.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And half the capability.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But do I really need all that capability? Okay, I
mean that's the question.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And I don't do video, I don't do audio cuts.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Everything is writing to me. Can I do it?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And you know, it's kind of funny because there was
another person who's in tech, who was on the radio
who said, you know, I go to the event, and
I know because I saw the device in ISA. Unless
you have something in your hands, so you play with
it for a month, you really you can't know how
good it is, how much you enjoy it, because really
(03:27):
the flaws start to show up as you're using it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Speaking of flaws, I remember once upon a time I
had a friend who had a Commodore sixty four and
I thought it was absolutely wonderful. Couldn't do much back then,
but it did a hell of a lot more than
anything else we had at the time.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Remember writing code in you could get a rainbow or
little airplanes flying.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I look, I was pretty good at writing in basic.
I was pretty good at it. That was something when
I first I used to run my computer lab in
high school and we were programming in basic and I
had a very very very rudimentary game that I created.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And it was fun.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, it was fun because.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You had accomplishment. You did something simple basically it wasn't
hard to learn. No, no, not at all, and you
got a reward. Maybe that would be beneficial. But right
now they're coming back. Some guy just went out a
YouTuber and he announced that he bought Commodore. He got
(04:34):
all new everything, every patent, everything that has to do
with it, and he's coming out with the Commodore sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Four again in twenty twenty five. Yeah, and it's on
our screen right now.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What would the Commodore sixty four be able to do
in today's world.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, let me tell you. He's ramped up the interior
just a little bit. Okay, he's got three models, but
basically they all have the same guts. It's got a
an AMD chip, one hundred and twenty eight megabytes of
DDR two RAM, sixteen megabytes of nor flash memory, supports
(05:15):
full HD ten ADP video over video out over HDMI
so you can plug it. Yeah anything plus classic DN eight.
If you remember cvbs S video and RGBO.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You're really going deep. Well, that RGB monitor.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
They want to keep it, you know, just but when
they said has an HDMI cable. I'm going fantastic, right,
this is great, and it comes with which is pretty amazing,
over an amazing amount of games. It's compatible with over
ten thousand of the original Commodore sixty four games.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You have the option to play both cartridges and also
the analog tapes that could be connected to it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Data sets and disk drive, so it had Yeah, I
grew up with the disc drive.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I learned how to spell on the Comedy sixty four.
You could have cartridges, disc like five inch floppy disks
which you barely find nowadays, and the cassette player caste right,
really versatile machine.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So you've got a fan right there.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So Sam, just so you know, the basic version, which
is a copy of the original in boring beige, is
going to come out for.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Two ninety nine ninety nine during pre sale.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Then they have a Starlight Edition for three forty nine
which provides a color changing LED transparent case, so it's
not beige. It's kind of groovy. I don't know if
that would just track to from the games. And they
have a Founder's Addition for four ninety nine that provides
(07:05):
color changing LED translucent case. A twenty four carrot gold
plated badge, satin gold keys, a translucent amber case, and
a commemorative Commodore gold seal.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I love all things retro. I just don't know if
i'd love it for five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, that is a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So for those of you, it's expected to ship in
October and if you want to go.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
To just in time for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah there you what a shot amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But Jese prices are pre order. Just go to commodore
dot net for more information. But another thing.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Is this, you have to tune into our YouTube so
you can see this is very cool.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
What I'm showing is the box for the NES Classic
Edition and this.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Which is an Nintendo Entertainment system.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Go ahead, and it's miniature. It's a miniature old style Nintendo.
It's got thirty classic games built into it, so you
don't have to stick a cartridge.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
At anything, nothing.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And it looks exactly because I wrote eBay for dummies,
I keep everything in the original box.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So it fits in the palm of your hand as
opposed to a game console, which is.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The size of like a laptop.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Caper exactly exactly, and you can use it with just
about anything.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
But the games are all built in. This and this
you can get.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was under fifty dollars when I first got it,
but now it's around one hundred dollars. And there's an
s NES version too, but these are a little cheaper
and with the games built in, can't lose?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now? Is that available? Now? Can I purchase that?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Now?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I looked it up just because I wanted to find
the current prices on it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Uh huh, Yeah, it's available now.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It's the Neees Classic Edition and it's pretty fabulous.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think I might have to go purchase that.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I mean it has Zelda, Super Mario, Free three, Final
Fantasy Things you'd like, Ninja something.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Better have, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong. Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Legend of Zelday's Adventure, pac Man, Metroid, Super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh, now you're speaking of my life right right.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's got games, and it's got Super Mario Brothers three,
Punch Out.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Castle, Yes, and Castlevania.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, Stephan, it's time to yeah show and yeah, my
birthday's coming up in November.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Make it happenpening.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
But this is so cool.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Let's go to break real quickly when we come back.
That's not the only computer news that you have to
share with us, right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, there's always news and computers.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We'll talk about it next with Marshall Collyer. It's Later
with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty OnLive everywhere
in the I Heart Radio.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Kf I AM six forty is Later with mo Kelly
live on social media and the iHeartRadio app. We're still
in conversation with one of our favorite people, a regular commentator,
Marsha Collier, who joins us in studio.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Last segment, she told us.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
About the comeback of the NYES, the Nintendo Entertainment System
and the Commodore sixty four. But that's not the only
comeback in the world of computers.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
What do you think is the hottest gadget of the decade,
of the decade, It's probably not what you think.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I can't pick one item personal computer.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
See I would have said like the smartphone or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You know, everybody has a smartphone, everybody has a tablet,
video game console, got that other electronics, but really none
of them substitute for a laptop.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
True, true, and you need the personal computer.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And obviously sales went through the roof during the pandemic
because everybody had to zoom and everybody was at home
and blah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
What's interesting is that the market is turning around, according
to IDC, and they are the people who know, they
count everybody's sales, that it's going to be a PC world.
I mean, they're going to be laptops galore. It's interesting
desktops are still selling.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Desktops like the towers and everything. Yep. I have just
full disclosure. I have a desktop.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's not a tower, but it's a small computer for
my audio editing at home. I have a laptop which
is PC for audio editing. This just because the auto
editing software doesn't exist on Android. But if I could,
I would just have a Chrome book, which, like your lifestyle,
(11:57):
more fits my lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It doesn't need to do much.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'll just let you know. It is kind of announced
this week that Chrome and Android, Chrome Book, Chrome OS
and Android are going to merge, So that'll be a
story for another day. Hopefully it'll lead to better software.
That's what they're saying and apps, I should say that's
that's what they're saying. So anyway, people are still buying desktops,
(12:23):
believe it or not. People are buying detachable tablets. You know,
the laptops where the tablet snaps off.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I have one of those. I'm not a fan. Neither
am I because it doesn't sit on my lap. It's
not a tablet.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, yeah, I always need the keyboard attached.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, it's a hunk of plastic that you want it
to be a laptop, but it isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Let me see.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Slate tablets are still selling, but that's way down, believe
it or no.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's nothing but notebooks.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
The sales are insane and they are getting stronger and
stronger by the year. And there are a lot of
options that people. There are so many options that you
can get. We talked about chromebook. When you buy a laptop, do.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You want to touch screen?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I actually do.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I have one laptop which is a PC think Pad,
which is not touchscreen. This is touchscreen. I actually appreciate
a touchscreen you do.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I do.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I do, maybe because I've used it enough where there
are times where I want to zoom in on something
and I can just gesture it.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I do this to books right right there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I kind of want that, And maybe it's an age thing.
Sometimes I just need to expand that text just a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The fonts a little too small, Yeah, just a little
bit bigger.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
But you know, computers mixed PCs with the tablets and
smartphones making one devices. So you've got the touchstreen screen
laptop and to tablets, and why can't there be especially
with the new Chrome OS and Android going together, why
(14:09):
can't your phone go through your laptop. There's no reason
why it should.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It can. There's they are apps.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't want to get too far afield, but yes,
because of Chrome, everything is SYNCD between my phone and
my laptop, and I can send anything on my phone
to my laptop.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But it's because I know how to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It's not as easy for someone who would not have
any experience doing that.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, it's going to be fun, but sales of tablets
and smartphones peaked years ago. Tablets have a niche, but
everybody's got a phone and people are holding onto phones
longer and longer.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now I don't need a tablet if I have a phone,
because as far as I'm concerned, the tablet is.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
A phone that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Can't dial, because my phone is pretty much like a
small tablet, and if I want something larger than that,
I need a real keyboard, which means laptop, not tablet.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You know, I've started dictating to my tablet much of
my phone instead of type typing. I think you just
activated your phone. That was twala, he said, yep, but
it's true. You know you're dictating to your phone. You
don't have to type in its tiny, little, ridiculous keyboard.
We used to have great keyboards, but now not so much.
(15:29):
One week, I have assembled a group of vintage smartphones
that I'll bring in and we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Something that has really helped me is I have a
Bluetooth keyboard that I use with my phone, especially when
I'm traveling, as opposed to taking a full laptop. I'll
just take the keyboard and I can type normally as
if I had a full laptop.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Well, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
On my blog, there's an article about Samsung decks, which
came out eons ago. And that was where you could
control a monitor with your phone right, and that could
be the way to go too.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
But people are loving the laptops for now.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I love how everything old is new again, and as
trends change and people's desires change, something that we already
had might be.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Found useful again.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Just make it better.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Marshall Caryer is always great to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Good to see you. Moan see next week. You better
believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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