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Podcast 1620: Choosing Your Next Computer

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Show Notes:

Hour 1: Deciding Which Kind of Computer Is Best For You

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If there is one question that dominates our email and our listener call ins, it is “What kind of computer should I be buying?”  When Gary and Foster started the program back in 1998, the answer tended to presume that you meant, “What kind of PC should I be buying?” and the usual group of name brands from Dell to HP were trotted out.

Ever since 2010, when Steve Jobs launched the category breaking iPad, the answer to that question has gotten more and more complicated.  As desktops become more and more niche market devices, laptops, ultrabooks, tablets, and hybrids are offering a wide variety of options and price points.  Nonetheless, the most important basic question to decide is: “What will you be doing with your new device?”  …


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1608 Choosing Your Next Laptop

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Show Notes:

Hour 1

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]On this show we tackle one of our most frequently asked questions: What do you recommend we buy for our next laptop?  Each member of our team chimed in with helpful tips about everything from CPU speed to display size.

To make the discussion a little more practical, we chose a recent laptop sold on Amazon and displayed above.  We don’t want everyone to run out and buy this Lenovo laptop but we do want you to see that there are some very capable laptop computers for under $400, depending on your computing needs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”12036″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Click Here to Listen to Computer Tips

  • CPU (dual core, i3, AMD)
  • Screen Size (13″ vs 15 or 17 “)
  • To touch or not to Touch Screen
  • Hard Drive : SATA (mechanical), SSD (Solid State Drive), Hybrid (combination of SSD and SATA gives speed and max storage for less $)
  • RAM (4 GB base but 8GB preferred. May be added later.
  • OS -PC: Windows 10 64 bit Home

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Podcast 1333 Hour 2 Aug. 24, 2013 :Tech Answers For Listeners

Gary, Ed, Cal, Foster

Hour 2:  Answering Listener Questions. 

Show Notes:  (Hour 1 Available in Podcasts)

Segment 1: John Barrie, APTECH  (Appropriate Technology Collaborative)

Segment 2: Dave from Romeo Problems getting a router to work after some changes.

Segment 3: Contest winner   Ruth in Belleville has never had a computer and wants to know what to buy.  Decision making for the non-geek.

Segment 4: Paul from Ann Arbor amateur photographer asks about SDIO WiFi Card and Ed shares about helping  his son set up a router at college.

Email your questions to us by going to the Contact Us button on our home page.  It’s as easy as that.

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Guess what this is!

Hint: picture was  taken in 1956…

It’s a hard disk drive  back in 1956… with 5 MB of storage.  In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the  first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD  weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5  MB of data.

Do you appreciate your  8 GB memory stick a little more now?


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