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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 306: Mac Mini Migration, Drobo FS, Macworld Contest, and Paul Kent!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

An unscheduled - and unscripted - show today for all of you before your two favorite geeks take their holiday break. John got his new Mac Mini and tells the tale of his migration to it from his G5, lots of tips there. Dave has been working with the Drobo FS, so he’s got some things to say about that. There is a contest for Macworld Expo passes for which you can submit a haiku to win, and finally Dave spent some time interviewing Paul Kent of Macworld Expo, and that interview is here in its entirety. Don’t miss it folks… and don’t get caught!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Gosh Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

0:28.4

Here in Durham, New Hampshire and yes it's a little bit of a surprise that we're

0:32.4

doing a show today I am

0:33.6

Dave Hamilton and here in fearful Connecticut where I just saw some flurries

0:38.2

maybe we'll have a white Christmas Dave I don't know John F Braun, I'm shocked too, Dave.

0:43.0

I thought you said we weren't going to do a show until, you know, next year.

0:46.5

Well, some things have happened.

0:49.0

What's happening?

0:50.0

As well, going in reverse order. I did an interview with Paul Kent earlier this week about Macworld

0:56.2

Expo and I wanted to make sure we shared that with everybody here.

0:59.9

But then you went ahead and got, you got your new machine that we talked about in show

1:08.0

3.05, you got your Mac Mini.

1:10.4

And I figured what better opportunity.

1:13.0

We'll talk a little bit about your Mac mini here

1:15.1

and then we'll share this interview that I did with Paul.

1:18.1

And, and we have a contest to announce.

1:21.6

In fact, let's do that first.

1:24.6

For all of you going to Macworld Expo, listen up.

1:29.6

We have one super pass and two user conference passes to give away and you know when we do

1:36.2

contests here if we haven't done one right before we love haiku's right love haiku's so we're doing it again. What we need you to do is come up with a

1:50.3

haiku it can be anything but it must be your own work and by saying that really what we mean

1:55.8

is it must be something we can't Google and find elsewhere, right? But it must be your own work, you can

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