Category: 705: Tech Tails TV Wed At 5!, RotW: Troublesome G3-to-MacBook Migration, Discrete Graphics and RAM

In June 2008, we introduced *Consulting and Outside Sales* to the list of services we provide. For those of you who are local, the Consulting side of this can include on-site, in-home and in-store consulting services for our clients. Unfortunately, many customers outside of VT are not able to take advantage of most of these;…

A customer strolled in to our South Burlington store the other day with 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro, fully decked out with 8GB of RAM. Somehow, after a few hours of layout in Quark XPress, the machine would begin to bog down and beachball as if it were a Bondi blue iMac G3 with dial-up internet…

Small Dog offers data transfer services from any previous computer, including machines running older versions of Mac OS (even the classic Mac OS) and most any flavor of Windows. Last week I completed a tricky transfer from an iBook G3 that resulted in a MacBook Pro that booted to the Setup Assistant no matter how…

We’re broadcasting our very first live Tech Tails TV show tomorrow at 5:00 PM EST on our “Ustream.com”:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tech-tails-tv channel. Rebecca and Matt will be hosting and taking Mac, iPod and even iPhone tech questions via “Twitter”:http://twitter.com/hellosmalldog and also via email. If you want to send questions in via Twitter, simply post your question and reference…

Happy Tuesday, Tomorrow at 5PM EST is the premier of “Tech Tails TV”:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tech-tails-tv, where Rebecca and I will take questions via “Twitter”:http://www.twitter.com/hellosmalldog, “Facebook”:http://www.facebook.com/smalldogelectronics, or AIM (techtailstv). We hope to get plenty of questions from our readers, and that you’ll help spread the word about this fun resource in the making! Vermonters were treated to a…