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We are flying by the seat of our trousers at this very moment. I am so delighted you're here with us.

Joining me is William Orwell Gallagher.

Orwell Gallagher. I was waiting for a word in front of William the way you usually do it, but no, you set me up and

then you just worry me down.

Orwell, George Orwell, very talented writer, covered in a brilliant Alan Blay to play. I don't think that's really what you're

William whatever Gallagher. Oh

Okay. Victor marvelous Victor how are you doing then? I am still here, that's what I am.

And are you really excited about the October 30 event now that we've had this extra

added tiny bit of evidence that they're almost certain? the It's interesting in that there are new IMAX that's fine. We were talking about the

possibility of iPads and Apple pencils. The one that everyone knows they're tired of hearing

me talk about is of course the Mac mini. Yes the Mac mini and I

get it I know why you're so interested my wife Angela has one and I have seen the

loveliness of it unless you can tell me you have a secret smuggling Macmill industry on the side, I think I guess why you like it.

But I definitely get why you've been hanging on. Isn't it four years now to the day since it was last update.

Quite and I promise you I have no interest in Angela whatsoever, but the Mac Mini remains a unique

machine.

You know, it's currently bested by things like the Intel NUC, which is a lousy product name if there ever was one and you see your network something computer who cares no one cares

The thing of it is is that you need a small computer that can sit into either act as a full desktop or be able to to live off in the corner as a server and run network tasks and do interesting things with it that way.

And the Mac Mini was uniquely well suited to that.

The, you know, the, it was the lowest priced Macintosh ever and that made it something that was really

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