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🗓️ 26 October 2025
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On Hands-On Tech, listener Ozzie asks Mikah Sargent how to repurpose a 2010 MacBook Pro so they can avoid recycling it.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 1:00.9 | Coming up on hands-on-tech, what do we do if we've got an old machine and we want to |
| 1:05.4 | breathe new life into it? |
| 1:09.0 | Stay tuned for my answer next on Hands on Tech. |
| 1:12.4 | This is Twit. |
| 1:21.2 | Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech, the show where you write in with your tech questions, |
| 1:25.4 | and I answer them. Oh, what a novel idea. We have some |
| 1:29.5 | great questions, a great question this week that comes in from listener Ozzy. Ozzie writes, |
| 1:35.5 | I'm a longtime Micah listener and club twit member. Thank you, Ozzie. That's very kind. I do have a |
| 1:41.4 | question, but first I wanted to thank you for introducing me to I Amazing. I was able to save my music library from Oblivion. It took a bit of trial and error, but I was able to get my music library from my iPhone SE to my Uber old Windows 10 PC, not able to upgrade to 11, and my iPad Air, 4th Gen. So, Ozzie, first and foremost, super happy to hear that. |
| 2:01.7 | For people who aren't familiar, I'maizing is this tool that I have long talked about as |
| 2:06.2 | a means of backing up stuff from your phone or your iPad, but also doing so much more. |
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