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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 321: Will My Mac Run Lion? Also SSD, RAM, & More!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Technology, How To, Education, News, Tech News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2011

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dave and John come together for March’s second Premium show to answer a burning question: Will my Mac run Lion? They also dig through a few (unrelated but coincidental) questions about both SSD and RAM needs, answer a question about ejecting a pesky DVD from your Mac, what it means to get a CTO Mac repaired, dealing with yet more duplicates in Aperture, and more. Subscribe today, it’s US$25, you get two extra episodes per month, and you can support your two favorite geeks!A note: though Premium, John and Dave pushed the entire contents of this episode out to the main feed as a gesture to all their loyal subscribers. Subscribe to the free feed today, and enjoy!

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Abbe number 3-1.

0:04.0

Premium for Thursday, March 24th, 2011. I go in and it and Goodings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab the show where you

0:29.4

asked the questions we help provide the answers the rest of the listeners provide the answers. We all come out of this including me

0:37.4

Learning something new every show here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton

0:42.3

I agree with you Dave. I just learned something. Oh, John F. Braun here in Fearfield, Connecticut.

0:47.0

But I just learned something from a reply to a question.

0:52.6

So yeah, we're all learning.

0:53.6

Well, it's one we're going to cover shortly,

0:55.9

but the listener wrote back and said,

0:58.6

yeah, you solve the problem.

1:00.2

And by the way, here's a better way to do what you suggested to do.

1:03.4

So we're all learning.

1:04.4

Even better?

1:05.4

It's a wonderful thing.

1:06.4

That's cool.

1:07.4

You know, I don't mean to jump off the agenda right out of the gate. However, I'm going to. So apparently I do. You know, I'm

1:18.3

a TiVo guy, right, John? As are you, right? I think we have, we both have the, we were both pioneers and got the

1:27.0

Series 3. That's right. That's right. That's right. So, which was the first of the HD capable TiVo units, right?

1:35.7

So recently, listener of ours, Corey, offered to sell me,

1:42.4

was looking to sell both, he had a TiVo

1:44.3

HD and a TiVo Premier which are actually both newer than our series 3,

1:49.0

right? The HD came out after the series 3 and then and then the TiVo Premier which is

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