Tech Table Tuesday, January 21, 2014
January 21, 2014
Justin: Welcome to MPA’s Tech Table. I’m Justin.
Diana: And I’m Diana.
Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up a heaping spoonful of all things tech.
Diana: We promise it’ll be easy to digest. Hello, Justin.
Justin: Hello. It’s Tech Tuesday here at the Tech Table and it’s exciting. It’s exciting this morning. Tuesday seems like a good day.
Diana: Yeah? You’re like pumping your arms there.
Justin: I am. I’m raring to go or else I’m trying to fly away like a chicken which didn’t work very well. If I had wings I would end up being a chicken.
Diana: Really?
Justin: Yeah, because I wouldn’t go very far. You know how chickens…
Diana: I would be a soaring eagle.
Justin: Wouldn’t you though? Wouldn’t you though? That’s exactly right.
Diana: Yeah.
Justin: Protected species and all.
Diana: Yes, exactly.
Justin: Very good, very good. I’d be something…
Diana: Justin’s a chicken.
Justin: I’d be something with no other use than to throw on the stove basically. Today it’s Tech Tuesday. What are we talking about, Diana?
Diana: Well, one of our techs, Tim, good guy, good tech, he’s super smart, he has recently been reading online a lot of people are saying that Macs are overpriced. Now, you and I, we talk about how much we love our Macs and our Apple products although we still do use Microsoft and our non-Mac related products. But he’s been reading about how Macs are overpriced, not worth the cost, PCs are better, yada yada yada, and so forth. So he thought perhaps it would be interesting to hear some opinions on Apple – his opinions on Apple versus non-Apple.
Justin: All right, so, what’s good and then what’s bad.
Diana: Right. Right.
Justin: According to Tim, the technician.
Diana: According to Tim, the technician.
Justin: That’s excellent. It’s good. Yeah. Because people do complain. What I have to say is that PCs are more disposable. Just kidding. I used to be a huge PC guy.
Diana: Me too.
Justin: We have one.
Diana: Well, maybe not a PC guy but…
Justin: Oh, yeah. I was a PC chicken. No. Oh, boy. Okay, so the things that Tim really likes that he points out about Apple products, the motherboards are very densely packed with components which indicates a lot of thought went into the design. That’s true.
Diana: Right. I don’t think anyone could argue with that.
Justin: No. Apple products as a whole generally have very thoughtful intuitive designs.
Diana: Yes. Yes. They also use the highest quality gold plated printed circuit boards and that gold conducts electricity well and prevents corrosion. So it’s not just for pretty. It’s not like you’re going to look at it.
Justin: Right, right. It’s very useful. A lot of metals are. I know you’re surprised by that because a lot of metals you like to wear.
Diana: Yes.
Justin: But a lot of metals have actual energy conductive purposes and things like that.
Diana: Yes.
Justin: Also he says the frame of the MacBook is machined out of a single block of aluminum then anodized. Interesting, I’ve never heard that word even.
Diana: Something Tim knows about.
Justin: Yeah, but it’s very interesting. I always say this, actually, about how my MacBook is the most solid laptop I’ve ever had. I’m shaking it right now.
Diana: Right. There’s no flexibility to it.
Justin: Right. It doesn’t. If you grab a big PC laptop a lot of times they even flex and bend a little which makes me nervous because obviously if you drop that it doesn’t seem like it would hold up very well.
Diana: So, what are some things that he doesn’t really like?
Justin: They solder all the components together making them nearly impossible to repair to upgrade.
Diana: So if one thing breaks it’s kind of all downhill.
Justin: Right, yeah. It’s very expensive but, again, you get what you pay for.
Diana: So it’s not going to break really very often.
Justin: Right, the quality is just top notch.
Diana: They also, Tim says has questionable means of building computers. They’ve been in trouble several times for the use of child labor in sweatshops.
Justin: Yes, it’s true, which is surprising for such a hip company. But they have had those problems I think with some of their Chinese plants.
Diana: I think they’re addressing them though. I mean they have so…
Justin: Yeah, they’re working on that so, yeah. So, you’ll get an Apple and you’ll get what you pay for.
Diana: It’s true.
Justin: Apple products. All right. Well, until next time…
Diana: Take care.
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Justin: And thanks for listening.
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