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Welcome to the Typical Mac User Live show. My name is Victor Cajiao and I am your host this evening. My regular Podcast Typical Mac User Podcast can be found at www.typicalmacuser.com and that shows is released bi weekly on Tuesday nights and Sunday nights.

 

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This evening I have not one but Two guest co-hosts I have both Katie and Corey from MacCore Podcast http://themaccore.com/

 

Katie, welcome back to the show and Corey welcome for the first time.

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So before any further we need to put Corey on the spot and tell us all about himself.

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Also lets find out how the two of you became friends and then podcast co-hosts of all things.

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Met at our local Apple Users Group. Corey was the VP at the time and Katie started becoming more active and became part of the board. Being two of the more experienced users in the group we frequently ran the Q&A sessions and the group immediately started to take a liking to our "banter." Things just developed from there.

 

C: Now my side :)

 

The Podcast started based on a sly comment made during the 2006 Macworld Keynote. Corey and I were watching the feed and chatting on iChat at the same time when Steve Jobs was talking about GarageBand now becoming the ultimate podcasting production software. We both got a little caught up in the "reality distortion field" and one of us said "We should do a podcast." and the other agreed. When we started we had no clue what we were doing (and some say we still don't!) but things just progressed from there.

 

Katie and I always got along, we just both always think we're right, but my wife will tell you... I am ;)

Our friendship reminded me of an old radio show (back before TVs) called the Bickerson's, always "arguing, but in a humorous way." I thought that was what made Katie and I unique, the "banter" without taking it personally, fun for us and the audience.

 

 

 

Questions or comments from the live listeners for Katie or Corey?

 

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A: Mac Hardware replacement and Hacking

Corey I'd like to see you feature on this segment since you work with this stuff, Katie and I can chime in from the user and point of view of the more "typical person" although I know Katie has hacked pretty hard at her hardware.

 

Corey can do anything, Katie pretty much sticks to RAM and Hardware Replacement. :)

 

Mac repair shop is much slower than the pc side, but there is a bigger percentage of pcs in our field.

See lots of ibook G3s coming in, the video on the logic board seems to be an issue. Around $250-$300 for repair, so its not worth it for that old of a computer.

Seeing lots of issue with macbook logic boards recently. We introduced about 250 macbooks into the schools starting in November, around 10 have seen logic board replacement.

eMacs, probably Apple's worst nightmare, no wonder they discontinued them. The diplay/analog boards are always dying on those, and if its not that its the down converter board.

 

What else?

 

 

Questions or comments from the live listeners

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Subject B: What is a Hackintosh, How does one make one and is all this clone thing good for the macs.

 

A: Corey if you can give us the short version of how one goes about making one of these. Can any computer parts be use, what is the EFI, how hard is it to do.

 

B: All three of us can talk about these talking points made by MacRountable listener Steve from Chicago who has some very good points that we are going to use as an out line .

 

Price:

We can all creatively add up every possible penny to justify a Mac vs PC is the same value. But to real customers then the argument isn't value, the argument is the cost of hardware.

The Intel switch is brilliant in so many ways, but for Apple then it is the main reason why their profits are so high. The parts in our Macs and Dells all cost the same because they come from the same place. And that is the reason PsyStar can offer a $400 Mac. Motherboard, Proc, Memory, Optical, Power Supply, Case. In terms of hardware, there is NOTHING in todays Macs that make them any different from a PC.

Quality:

As an Apple veteran then I am familiar with the high quality of Macs in the PPC days. If you got less than 5years out of it then it was a dud.  But with Intel then that is all out the window because whether you're running OS X, Linux or Windows then your Intel-compatible hardware all has the same failure rates. And that is exactly why we recommend AppleCare to everyone. One day your Intel Mac WILL need servicing.

Mac "superiority" is all about the OS and the Apps. It is no longer about hardware. These aren't 5yr investments anymore, these are disposable appliances. And that is the PsyStar / Dell way of treating the consumer market. If your $500 system dies or if you get sick of it then you toss it out and spend another $500 for a 2009 model. It works with Microwaves, iPods and PC clones so there's no there's no reason Mac owners shouldn't live by that theory also.

Style:

In no possible way am I going to attack Apple's style. They make the most visually appealing (and for the Mac Pro, the most accessible) computers out there. My problem are the people who say you pay extra for the style and design. As beautiful as our Macbooks and iMacs are, style just isn't important if you have to pay extra for it. I can get the same amount of work done in a sweaty stinky jogging suit as I can in a tuxedo.

 

 

 

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B.5: Subject B Corey could talk about Becoming Apple Certified (c:maybe talk about this before the hardware?)

 

If you still have my email victor, you see my certs, anything in particular to talk about, why I have the ones I have? or what others should do to get certified?

 

Yes lets talk about Mac certifications, what people should do on their own and what they should not. What is covered if you do it yourself and what not to do if you don't want to void your warranty.

 

 

 

 

Questions or comments from the live listeners

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C: Subject C (Discussion on something in the Mac news would be good here)

c: quarterly reports?, favorite app? Bootcamp update? Screen sharing through ichat, not as easy as they say.

 

I like these subjects, specially the screensharing stuff. I find it very easy so it will be interesting why you guys don't (or you don't Corey).

 

I understood that once you were connected video iChat, you could share someone else's screen, walking a beginner through this is not the simplest, but once I did walk them through it there were connection errors that were probably due to closed ports, and I wasn't going to bring "certain" clients through that. On the pc side, I have clients download an app I customized from www.ultravnc.com that skips all the firewall stuff, they approve the connection etc and then the program disappears once I'm done controlling it.

 

Questions or comments from the live listeners

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SHOW ENDING:

 

 

I want to thank Katie and Corey from the MacCore podcast found found at www.themaccore.com

 

Thank you Victor, for having us on.

 

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The Typical Mac User Podcast can be found at www.typicalmacuser.com and that shows is released weekly on Tuesday nights. This show will be release in my sream late tonight. If you haven't subscribed to that show yet, head over to the web site at www.typicalmacuser.com and hit the ONE BUTTON iTunes subscription.

 

For now this is your Host Victor Cajiao saying, enjoy the rest of your Sunday