Hello readers,

It has been cooling off last couple of weeks, but as usual, I forget what it actually feels like to be cold! It’s in the 40s at night now — we will likely see frost down here near the lake by the weekend and there are people skiing in the mountains already. So it’s not really cold, but just enough to remind me of what is coming (or not, if we get a repeat of last “winter”).

Business is brisk in service, with upgrades to Mountain Lion currently being one of our most-requested jobs. Upgrading from 10.5 is a chore that requires erasing the hard drive, installing, and restoring data. Upgrading from 10.4 is all that and more — the newest OS will not migrate data from Tiger; it must be manually copied.

We are getting lots of requests for upgrades from people who would rather have an experienced tech take care of their machines and data during this process. Please let us know if we can help any of you out there as well. But of course as Tech Tails readers, you can handle it I’m sure! Hope you are all having a good fall.

Thanks for reading.

Liam
liam@smalldog.com