MGG 353: Popping the Spinning Beachball!
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2011
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Mac Geek Geek Cab number 353 Premium for Thursday, September 15, 2011. Oh, I Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab the show where well |
| 0:30.0 | you are a premium subscriber and we thank you for that. |
| 0:35.0 | Here in Durham, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 0:40.0 | Here in Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun. |
| 0:45.0 | So, John, I got a new toy. |
| 0:50.0 | And it's something you don't know about yet. |
| 0:54.0 | A toy? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | We, we, we, well we bought MacBook Airs for all the full-timers here at TMO, and I wasn't going to get one quite yet, but because I did a bunch of them, they gave me a deal on it. |
| 1:09.0 | And so I have an 11-inch MacBook Air now, which I got yesterday. |
| 1:15.0 | And it is by far the best laptop I've ever used. |
| 1:19.6 | I have, I've got ahead for a day, |
| 1:21.0 | so you know, there's still shiny new syndrome going on it but |
| 1:23.6 | but yeah it's fantastic and and knowing that at some point you know I got the |
| 1:30.9 | new I'mac and and so I had relegated my old Macbook pro to just being my travel machine |
| 1:36.0 | between whenever that happened and whenever I |
| 1:39.0 | Wanda getting an air and so I had can I totally put line on fresh, which I mentioned, and had it set. |
| 1:45.6 | And my thought was, well, I'll use this, but then I can just migrate over to another |
| 1:49.0 | fresh Lion machine, and I'll be good to go. |
| 1:52.2 | And so that's what I did. But course you know I started setting up the air and I'm like oh yeah that's right |
| 1:56.9 | There's no you know firewire target disc mode. It's not but I did the whole migration assistant thing over Wi-Fi |
| 2:03.6 | you launch migration assistant on both machines you tell one of them it's almost like a |
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