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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 226: Magic Mouse, Apple Battery Secrets, Q&A

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2009

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

A special weekend show with tons of great info. Dave shares his initial thoughts on the Magic Mouse, then he and John dig into some more information about MacBook (and MacBook Pro) removable batteries, including what constitutes a "cycle" and dissecting AppleCare's battery replacement policies. Then its on to your questions and tips, and the geeks knock this one out of the park!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Cab 226 for Sunday, November 8th. Happy birthday, Dad. I'm Dave Hamilton here

0:31.9

in Durham, New Hampshire sitting next to me as Pilot Pete and on the Skype as always.

0:37.0

Virtually sitting next to you, this is John F. Braun, and it's 2009 by the way, I think you left that part off.

0:42.0

Oh, did I really? Yeah, well. Well, when you know, hundreds of years in the future when people listen to this that they may be curious as to what year that this was made. Yeah, well, actually, I mean, this is our fourth year in in business as it were and so you know it's

0:57.4

important to delineate the year. All right so what do we got? We have we

1:02.0

actually have an action-packed show for you here today.

1:06.5

We've got, we've got, I took a look at the magic mouse.

1:13.9

John, we have a new sponsor on board

1:16.9

that we'll talk about later in the show.

1:18.2

We have some great questions, great feedback

1:21.8

about a lot of stuff from last week including a lot more

1:26.0

info on batteries in Apple notebooks that's going to be a very interesting

1:32.0

discussion and and and lots to learn if you have an that's going to be a very interesting discussion.

1:33.0

And lots to learn.

1:34.6

If you have an Apple notebook, there is info later here

1:38.1

that we've come, that's come in both from our listeners

1:41.6

and also that we've found out by doing a little bit of

1:44.8

investigative research so you'll definitely want to stick around for that and and then

1:51.4

just lots of tips and questions from you folks and from us.

1:55.0

The usual.

1:56.0

Yeah, the usual.

1:58.0

And I got the window open here.

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