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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Cool Stuff Found, NAS Advice, and Geek Challenges – Mac Geek Gab 671

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to dig back into NAS drives by answering Steve’s question: Which Synology DiskStation is right for me? There are a few more things to explore on that topic, too, and your two favorite geeks do it justice. Separate from that are a few questions about a variety of topics, some of which are Geek Challenges where you get to provide some answers! A hardware-focused Cool Stuff Found rounds out the topic list for the week. Press play and enjoy learning!

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Cab episode 671 for Sunday, August 20th, 2017. I go! Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek have the show

0:28.9

where you send in cool stuff tips and questions we share the cool stuff and tips we

0:34.4

answer your questions we share some stuff of our own the goal is for all of us to

0:40.3

learn at least four new things each and every time we get together.

0:45.5

Today's episode includes, we've actually got some hardware cool stuff found.

0:49.5

We might have a couple of geek challenges.

0:51.1

We will definitely address and discuss the NAS related questions that you folks have been sending in

0:59.3

And this episode is sponsored by other world Computing at Max Sales.com.

1:04.4

Memory upgrades for the 2017 I Max are there.

1:07.3

We'll talk more about that shortly.

1:09.7

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:13.0

And here, in Fearful, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

1:16.0

How you doing, Mr. John F. Braun?

1:18.0

I am much more chipper.

1:20.0

I was off my game last week, but now I'm back on my game and I'm ready to rock.

1:24.4

Ready to rock. All right, let's go. Let's jump to Dan then. We'll share some tips.

1:29.2

You've got some interesting things. So Dan says,

1:33.0

I wonder if other people have the same thing that I've discovered.

1:37.0

Two months ago, I had a Mac Mini and several iOS devices.

1:42.0

The Mac Mini had a home-brew fusion drive, which worked fantastically.

1:46.0

Well, I pay Apple for extra I-Cloud space in order to use the I-Cloud

1:50.0

Photo library on all my mobile devices and my only Mac. I use optimized storage on all

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