Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

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1 Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers. TAVCC Mac User Group MUG October 6, 2011

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3 TAVCC MUG Agenda - October 6, 2011 Mac computers ipad apps iphone 4S IOS 5 icloud ipods itunes Mac Lion and apps

4 Mac Products and Software Thunderbolt Next Generation of I/O Apple going Thunderbolt route instead of USB 3.0 Moving away from CD/DVD drives Moving away from Hard Drives (favoring SSD Drives) Pushing Intel to reduce power requirements OS X Lion - 6 million downloads and counting Adobe Bridge & Photoshop and Aperture run slower Depending on hardware, all apps are running slower Safari hanging up or disappears more often Not a lot of new features

5 Recommended apps for Mac s Mac OS Lion - recommend, but not happy with performance or features WannaAudio - extracts music from MP3, FLV and MP4 - then creates M4A (itunes) WonderShare video converter - converts FLV to MP4 (itunes) HandBrake - converts DVD s to MP4 (itunes) RealPlayer and VLC media players (along with Quick Time Player) HandBrake - converts DVD s to MP4 (itunes) Libra Office - OpenOffice - Neo Office - OpenOSX - MS Office iworks Safari - FireFox - Chrome - Camino - Opera - SeaMonkey Remote Desktop Connection (iphone and ipad users)

6 Apple s April 4 Announcements Positive IOS 5 icloud iphone 4S Negative ipod iphone 5 CEO Cook is beginning to show his leadership style and abilities. It was his decision to go with Thunderbolt on Mac computer line. His decision not to manage expectations for this announcement. And, why is Apple not paying attention to ipod products or iworks software iworks ipad 2, MacBook Air and iphone sales will continue to exceed expectations thru Then, Apple must show product enhancements or their winning streak will begin to suffer under intense competition.

7 iphone 4S - Looks exactly like the iphone 4 Available October 14 A5 processor chip (twice the speed of A4) Compatible with CDMA and GSM Graphics improvement at 7x Improved antenna design 8 hours of talk time (over 3G) Upload/download speeds improved (Only on AT&T and China) 8-megapixel cam/cmos lighting (improved low light performance) Record 1080p with improved image stabilization Assistant (Siri) - speak to your iphone 4S AT&T, Verizon and Sprint

8 IOS 5 - available October 12 OS will be downloaded from itunes Notifications Newsstand PC-free setup Wireless syncing Fast access to the camera app from the lock screen Cards app - 21 designs (insert your own pictures) 61% of mobile market devices run IOS

9 icloud - available October 12 Store content and push to other devices Support up to 10 devices free 5GB of icloud storage free Non-iTune content - $24.99 per year Find My Friends app (geo-locations) Find My Phone included with icloud MobileMe to discontinue service June 30, 2012 What about documents, spreadsheets, slides, movies, TV shows, and other non-itunes content? Where do they get backed up or sync ed?

10 ipods - not a whole lot of new stuff ipod Nano and Touch No physical modifications - oh, it comes in white! Seems like Apple is missing a huge opportunity with ipods. Why not a 5 ipod? Why not A5 chip? Why not laser projection?

11 ipad and apps Mercury is more desirable than Safari TextNow is a great texting app Weatherbug is a great weather app Tunein Radio best radio station for music Editions is a daily magazine adjusted to your preferences QuickOffice still best office suite for ipad Blackboard! is a good tool for realtime presentation ipad 3 - probably Feb/Mar 2012 time frame Retina display to have 2048 x 1536 resolution (ipad 2 has 1024 x 768 resolution) SD Card Slot and Thunderbolt are rumored Kindle Fire & Samsung Galaxy tablets are real challengers