*Open Source Typical Mac User Live

 

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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 weekly on Tuesday nights.

 

 

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Well tonight I have one of my Friends In Tech to talk about some very interesting Mac and other related subjects. I'll be right back after a word from Audible.

 

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Show Outline

 

lntroduce Douglas : I want to introduce my co-host for tonight Dougles E. Welch from www.welchwrite.com. Douglas is a fellow Friends In Tech dot com member, and one of the most sound, intellegent and influencial voices for me when it comes to all things having to do with computer business for Small office or home office, opinions about new media and over all awareness of what producers like my self should be aware of. 

 

Douglas is the producer and hosts the Career Opportunities show, A Gardeer's Notebook blog, as well as the technology IQ showt and the Careers in Podcasting show. Welcome to the Show Douglas.

 

 

Ask Douglas to talk about his background

 

*Nearly 25 years in some form of consulting - paid and unpaid

• 5 years at Walt Disney Imagineering
  • a large use of macs, but always under pressure to not use them

 

• 1982 - College - Apple II user
• Started helping people then
• PC User at Work (CP/M on a Kaypro 10, too)
• Mac Plus and so on
• Currently using Mac Mini Intel Duo

 

 

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SoHo Mac

• Ping-pong upgrades from MS
• Lack of backup strategies, but more and more data
• Still some areas i.e. medical, etc where PC software is required
  • Seeing move, slowly to web-based/hosted apps
  • This works if they don't require IE
• More and more support for Mac in SoHo
  • Network pritners
  • Mac/Win interoperability
  • Web-based solutions

 

Questions from the Audience

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Switchers

 

• I have dealt with more switchers than ever the last 2 years
  • Vista drove some people to the Mac
  • Personal recommendations drove others
    • Kids, grandkids, etc

 

Questions from the Audience

 

 

 

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Preparing for Leopard

 

• When do you need to upgrade?
• G4 machines? - My recommendation is NO
  • Prefer to by machine designed for new OpSys
  • Use existing computer until you can't anymore
• In Place upgrades vs Erase and Install
  • Most of my clients would have to call me to do an Erase and Install
• I will probably do an Erase and Install or purchase a new machine with Leopard
  • Would like to move to a laptop as my sole machine

 

Questions from the Audience

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SHOW ENDING:

 

 

I want to thank Dougles E. Welch for being on the show tonight. You can find all of his show over at www.welchwrite.com  You deserve to listen to Douglas and read what he has to say, as it is always entertaining and sometimes very thought provoking

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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