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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Real-World Speeds, Choosing Storage, and Quick Tips – Mac Geek Gab 738

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ever have a disk drive or Wi-Fi device that doesn’t get quite the advertised speeds? Yeah, so have we. In fact, it happens all the time. Listen this week as John and Dave discuss the differences between advertised maximums and real-world expectations… and how to translate between the two. Of course, that’s not all! More questions and Quick Tips than you can shake a stick at. Press play, download, and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab number 738 for Monday 3 December 2018. I'm going to Go,

0:25.0

folks folks, and welcome to the Mac Observers,

0:29.0

Matt Kakeab, the show, you know,

0:31.0

we take your questions, we take your your tips we take all your cool stuff

0:34.4

found we take some of our cool stuff found and our tips we mix it all together so

0:39.3

that each and every one of us every week when we get together learns at least five new things.

0:46.0

Sponsors for this episode include Ops Genie from at lassian at Ops Genie.com,

0:51.2

Jampf now at JAMF.

0:53.9

g.

0:55.3

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com slash podcast and ring at ring. com slash mg gee g we'll talk more about each of those in a moment here.

1:05.0

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:08.0

And here in Fairfield, Connecticut, where I got down to the wire, but managed to get all my leaves put in

1:16.3

bags and they were just picked up today. This is John F. Ron.

1:21.7

And here in another part of Durham, New Hampshire, it's a pilot Pete and it's darn good to be here.

1:28.0

It's good to have you, pilot Pete.

1:29.5

Yeah, it's good to be had.

1:30.7

Yeah, I know, it's been too long. It's been too long it's been too long welcome back for those of you that have never

1:36.2

heard pilot Pete and I know there's probably at least some Pete is well he does he's a pilot but he he's he's great at asking the questions

1:47.7

in real time no not stupid questions it's like really good questions.

1:53.0

Case we get a little too heady here,

1:55.0

Pete keeps us grounded, so to speak.

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