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Mac Power Users

512: Ask the Genius

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.7 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Stephen steps behind the Genius Bar β€” or into the Genius Grove, as it were β€” to provide tips for troubleshooting Macs, iOS device and iCloud. Then, he and David talk about the new 16-inch MacBook Pro and how someone should prioritize features when buying a new computer.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users episode 512.

0:03.0

Ask the Genius.

0:04.0

Hello and welcome back to Mac Power Users.

0:10.0

My name is Stephen Hackett and I am

0:14.6

joined as always by my friend and yours Mr David Sparks.

0:18.1

Hello Mr. Hackett. Welcome to episode 512. It's this is funny we're going to get 512. It's this this is funny. We're going to get into this but I have to say if if people

0:26.6

didn't check out our developer roundtable last week's episode I'm really proud of how

0:31.0

that came out I think we had a really good conversation.

0:33.2

It's a little weird just to have two of us after having five people on the call last week.

0:37.6

A little easier to put together.

0:40.6

But if you haven't checked that episode out I would encourage you. I was I think we really covered some good ground with those guys last week.

0:48.0

Yeah, well, you know, they were just so you know, the reason we picked those three is they're just they've been doing it for years.

0:53.7

They're super honest and you know it's good to know as users as power users.

0:58.9

What is really kind of going on with the Mac and Iowa software business? It sounds like they're doing pretty good.

1:05.0

I think so. And you know it's funny, like the Omni group, they have guys there who like worked on next step. I mean it's,

1:12.0

yeah, they've really been in this

1:13.6

business a long time all all three of those companies and I don't know I just I just as we're

1:19.0

recording this I just finished the edit of it and I was just real happy with it so

1:22.4

I wanted to encourage people to go check that out.

1:24.3

Well I want to tell you that before you became a co-host of back power users we've got this big

1:30.8

spreadsheet with all the future episodes and occasionally there's like a note in like a future

1:38.1

I'm looking at right now says episode 800 I'm supposed to tell everybody why my wife thought I was a bozo the first time she met me.

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