Speaker 1: Hands on with the iPhone, Mini and Max sound like
Speaker 1: Disney characters. My pick for one of the best gifts
Speaker 1: this holiday season. The new Xbox and PlayStation are now
Speaker 1: available if you can find them. Plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about, and of course
Speaker 1: it is the place where I take the time to
Speaker 1: answer the questions that just send me. I'm Rich Demiro,
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope
Speaker 1: you are having a fantastic day so far. Everything's good
Speaker 1: over here, just you know, surrounded in new technology. I
Speaker 1: have mentioned this on the show for the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, but it is tech season like I have
Speaker 1: never seen. And maybe it's because I'm working from home
Speaker 1: and everything's just much more apparent and it's all just
Speaker 1: kind of here in the office and stacking up. But man,
Speaker 1: I've been playing with a lot of stuff lately, just
Speaker 1: in the past week. iPhone, Mini, iPhone, Max, HomePod, Mini PlayStation, Xbox.
Speaker 1: I mean, woo, what a group of things. Huh man, man, man,
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I've got lots of thoughts on
Speaker 1: these things, and all I have to say is that
Speaker 1: I do understand that for many folks, this is a
Speaker 1: tough time. It's pandemic, it is you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people are finding themselves either less than employed, or
Speaker 1: underemployed or not employed. And so that is not lost
Speaker 1: on me, right like, I understand that this is not
Speaker 1: a typical time for the American people. But with that said,
Speaker 1: I am doing my job. I am taking talking about
Speaker 1: the things that people are asking me about, and I
Speaker 1: am not trying to assume that everyone has the extra
Speaker 1: cash this holiday season to buy all of the stuff
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's out there, it's being marketed, and I need
Speaker 1: to let you know what's good, what's bad, what you
Speaker 1: should spend your hard earned cash on. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I come from. So do I think you
Speaker 1: need to rush out and buy the five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: PlayStation five tomorrow? Probably not. It will be there in
Speaker 1: six months. It'll probably be a better deal in six
Speaker 1: months because it'll have more games and more things, and
Speaker 1: the bugs will be worked out and some software updates.
Speaker 1: But I'll still tell you about it now, so you
Speaker 1: know what to do. And also I'm a big proponent
Speaker 1: of saving money as well. So save up for these things.
Speaker 1: If you hear something that you really like and you
Speaker 1: really got your eye on it, save up for it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do the financing plan. You don't
Speaker 1: have to do the you know, behold into whatever tech
Speaker 1: company on there, you know, divide it by twenty four
Speaker 1: or thirty or ninety. Save up the money, don't go out,
Speaker 1: you know, don't spend something you know, for me personally,
Speaker 1: like every I think of everything in terms of like Spotify,
Speaker 1: even though I don't subscribe to Spotify right now. Well
Speaker 1: technically I do cause I have a free trial. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so I think of everything in terms of Spotify. So
Speaker 1: if I can save like, you know, seven or eight
Speaker 1: or ten dollars on a lunch one day, I think
Speaker 1: of it as, oh, I just paid for Spotify for
Speaker 1: the whole month, and so just you know, continue to
Speaker 1: do that. Like this morning, I did go to Starbucks
Speaker 1: and you know, I looked at the it was like
Speaker 1: twelve dollars for you know, well, my wife got a
Speaker 1: fancy coffee, which I really can't bring myself to buy
Speaker 1: there because I just can't get over the fact that
Speaker 1: they're literally creeping up here in Los Angeles to like
Speaker 1: six dollars for a Grande. I mean, come on, that's
Speaker 1: insane to me. So I always go for the Brood,
Speaker 1: which you know they probably make more on that per
Speaker 1: ounce or something thing, who knows. But anyway, I digress.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not this is not the Dave Ramsey Show,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sitting here giving you all your financial advice.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, look, I love this stuff just
Speaker 1: as much as you do. You know, I love to
Speaker 1: buy technology just as much as the next person. And
Speaker 1: the reality is that, yes, I get to play with
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff before, so I can you know,
Speaker 1: I can really want something and then play with it
Speaker 1: and be like, h nevermind, I don't really need that.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, this is this is all
Speaker 1: good to know. So anyway, let's talk about some of
Speaker 1: these things. Let's just get right into it. Get right
Speaker 1: into it after I've been talking for four minutes on
Speaker 1: a diatribe. But let's talk about the Mini and the Max,
Speaker 1: the iPhone twelve. I have been using the iPhone twelve Pro,
Speaker 1: just the standard one and I have fallen in love
Speaker 1: with that device. It's so refreshingly good sized that I
Speaker 1: kind of just really really like the size of this phone.
Speaker 1: And when I'm presented with the iPhone twelve Pro Max,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a honk and big phone, and
Speaker 1: then the iPhone twelve Mini, which I just have no
Speaker 1: need for, but I get that. There's you know, so
Speaker 1: you have three different size phones this year, right, you
Speaker 1: have the Mini, you have the two twelves in the middle,
Speaker 1: the twelve and the twelve Pro, and then you have
Speaker 1: the twelve Pro Max. So I think the ones right
Speaker 1: in the middle are the perfect size for ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent of people. Now, I do like the
Speaker 1: Mini for someone who just is a casual phone user.
Speaker 1: And someone kind of got on me on social media
Speaker 1: for saying, what do you mean, We're not a pro
Speaker 1: or something like that, or a power user, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't reply back, but you know you're not. Power
Speaker 1: users are not getting the Mini because the Mini is
Speaker 1: too small to be a power user's phone. So you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be a casual user if you want
Speaker 1: the Mini. Now, the Max is for the power user,
Speaker 1: and realistically, the biggest difference is in the Max and
Speaker 1: the and the twelve Pro is when it comes to
Speaker 1: the camera, the camera is going to give you a gosh.
Speaker 1: My friend Jefferson Graham on USA Today did a really
Speaker 1: good job of explaining, and it's basically it comes down
Speaker 1: to the low light photography, which of course, but also
Speaker 1: comes down to the lens. And the lens is you
Speaker 1: get more zoom, obviously, but you also get a I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find exactly how he says it here because
Speaker 1: it's like fifty six I think seventy two. Oh, here
Speaker 1: we go. So the Max telephoto, the Max Max is
Speaker 1: out telephoto at sixty five, which he says is close
Speaker 1: to the seventy millimeters that pros use, and then the
Speaker 1: twelve Pro Max or the twelve Pro maxes out at
Speaker 1: fifty two milimeters, so you get more zoom on the
Speaker 1: Pro Max. So in looking at his pictures, you know
Speaker 1: it's definitely a little bit more. You can push in
Speaker 1: a little bit more on your pictures. But is that
Speaker 1: a reason to spend the extra hundred bucks he seems
Speaker 1: to think. So when it comes to you know, if
Speaker 1: you're a pro photographer, and that's kind of what I've
Speaker 1: been saying the whole time. If you want the absolute
Speaker 1: best camera that Apple has to offer, you got to
Speaker 1: go Pro Max. But you do have to get that
Speaker 1: larger size phone. And I'm just not sure that the
Speaker 1: trade off is there for me personally. This year, I've
Speaker 1: really gotten used to being able to hold my phone,
Speaker 1: put it in my pocket, take it on a hike,
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't seem to like, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: move around so much like it, you know, and everything
Speaker 1: with the with the Max I had last year. You know,
Speaker 1: when you put it in like one of those holders
Speaker 1: or anything, it's always just a little bit bigger. It's
Speaker 1: always a little heavier, it's always just a little bit
Speaker 1: more complex. But with that said, this thing is beautiful.
Speaker 1: Like the screen is just so nice. The form factor
Speaker 1: is just perfect. I think that it just feels like
Speaker 1: a small iPad slash computer. So if you want sort
Speaker 1: of one thing for everything, the Max is the way
Speaker 1: to go. The Mini is just fantastic for you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, the casual user that just doesn't care
Speaker 1: as much wants everything that's good about the iPhone, the
Speaker 1: fast processing speed, the great camera. You only get two lenses,
Speaker 1: not three, but you know, it's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: great little phone, and especially at six ninety nine or
Speaker 1: maybe even cheaper with carrier deals, it's just great. But
Speaker 1: I think that the twelve and the twelve Pro are
Speaker 1: the perfect size. They're identical sizing or close to it,
Speaker 1: and it's just a great It's just a perfect size
Speaker 1: in your hand. The only thing I will say that
Speaker 1: I've definitely noticed about the iPhone twelve and I haven't
Speaker 1: done enough with the twelve Mini and Max, is the
Speaker 1: battery life is definitely not as strong as it was
Speaker 1: on the eleven, which is funny because that is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest things I noticed about the eleven was
Speaker 1: the improved camera, but also the improved battery life, and
Speaker 1: it's just kind of lost on the twelve. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, maybe I'll just I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: probably getting used to having a smaller phone in general
Speaker 1: with the battery life, but also I think the five
Speaker 1: G is taking a toll and just maybe who knows
Speaker 1: some other stuff. But I noticed it's not as strong,
Speaker 1: but it's fine. Believe me, I'm getting through the day
Speaker 1: overall very happy, and honestly, you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: waver between Android and iOS a lot, and this is
Speaker 1: one of the first times right now when you compare
Speaker 1: what you can get with Android with what you can
Speaker 1: get with iOS, and you just can't match it with
Speaker 1: Android right now. The Note twenty Ultra comes close. But
Speaker 1: that phone again was a little bit too big for me.
Speaker 1: So if they made that Note twenty Ultra in an
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve Pro size, I would have a tougher time
Speaker 1: considering or deciding between these two. But the fact is,
Speaker 1: when they made the Note twenty, they took you know,
Speaker 1: the screen and all these weird things. They just kind
Speaker 1: of took a back seat too, I guess. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that made my decision easy. All right, let's end up
Speaker 1: of that, so let's get into the first question of
Speaker 1: the day. Dear rich DeMuro, very formal. I just reread
Speaker 1: your article regarding Wi Fi and I have a question
Speaker 1: regarding Wi Fi and Mesh network. I live in a
Speaker 1: single story house thirty two hundred square feet. Our Wi
Speaker 1: Fi is slow with lots of dead zones. The wires
Speaker 1: for the modem are in a walking closet and one
Speaker 1: side of the house not my idea. The other side
Speaker 1: of the house is the family room, which Mesh system
Speaker 1: do you recommend to be the most effective. I need
Speaker 1: to upgrade the Wi Fi speed as well. What do
Speaker 1: you recommend with Frontier? I have a choice of five hundred,
Speaker 1: five hundred or one gig. Thank you, Lauren, Lauren, thank
Speaker 1: you for your formality number one. But you know, look,
Speaker 1: I always recommend Eero. I have Euroo. It works great.
Speaker 1: I plan on upgrading to the new euro Wi Fi
Speaker 1: six or the Euro Pro, I should say with Wi
Speaker 1: Fi six it's right now six hundred bucks, so I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for that to go on sale for Black Friday.
Speaker 1: But you know, I have one gig Internet and it's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's good. I love it for the uploads.
Speaker 1: I think that for ninety nine point nine percent of people,
Speaker 1: five hundred five hundred is going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need the full gig unless you
Speaker 1: are uploading large video files on a daily basis like
Speaker 1: I am. So right now, I'm working from home. My
Speaker 1: photographer is working from home. He will take all the
Speaker 1: video files and put them in a dropbox kind of
Speaker 1: thing and then send them to me and I will
Speaker 1: download them, and it's it's a big process. And then
Speaker 1: I'm uploading you know, regularly gigabyte files five hundred gig
Speaker 1: or five hundred megabytes whatever, And yes, five hundred, five
Speaker 1: hundred will handle that. But the gig is just nice
Speaker 1: to have. So I don't think you need the gig.
Speaker 1: I think I do because of my job. If your
Speaker 1: job is similar, then definitely go with that. Now, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the ero, they I think they underestimate
Speaker 1: how many you need. I'd go with a at least
Speaker 1: a two point system, probably a three point for thirty
Speaker 1: two hundred square feet. But it's a single story, which
Speaker 1: means is probably since that is a large house, it's
Speaker 1: probably spread out more. So I would go one on
Speaker 1: the far corner where that closet is, one in the middle,
Speaker 1: and then one on the other side in the family room.
Speaker 1: And once you get that mesh network up and running,
Speaker 1: you will not believe just how fantastic your internet can be.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what I think is going
Speaker 1: to be the number one thing to give or get
Speaker 1: this holiday season, and it is the home Pod Mini.
Speaker 1: Now I was just okay, so let me just give
Speaker 1: you a little background on this thing. So Apple sent
Speaker 1: me the HomePod Mini to test out, and I plugged
Speaker 1: it in and started listening to it, and wow, I immediately
Speaker 1: was just blown away. This thing is three inches. It's
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks. And I've been so used to my
Speaker 1: Sono speakers that have been my kind of gold standard
Speaker 1: for many years. Last week on the show, you heard
Speaker 1: me say that I replaced them with some Google home speakers. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what. This week, I think I'm going to replace
Speaker 1: everything with the HomePod minis because they sound so good
Speaker 1: that I was I couldn't say anything about them, because
Speaker 1: you know, we have these things called embargos where you
Speaker 1: can't really talk about stuff. So the only person I
Speaker 1: can call was my wife, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't wait till you get home
Speaker 1: because I want you to hear these speakers. They sound
Speaker 1: so good. And so when she got home, I had
Speaker 1: they actually work with my sons, Like I have one
Speaker 1: Sonos that has airplay built in. It's a newer model,
Speaker 1: and I didn't realize that it kind of works in
Speaker 1: concert with these home pods, and so I kind of
Speaker 1: got them all up and running and I played the
Speaker 1: music throughout the house and it was only a couple
Speaker 1: of rooms. Case I don't have enough of these for everything.
Speaker 1: But I will say, she said, wow, that is impressive.
Speaker 1: It sounds really good. So now I've got a quandary.
Speaker 1: The home pod, I feel like sounds better than the
Speaker 1: Google stuff, and the Google stuff is having trouble grouping.
Speaker 1: That's the main thing that I found. And the iPhone
Speaker 1: with the HomePods, it groups a little bit better. And
Speaker 1: by grouping, I mean, Okay, I want to play this
Speaker 1: music throughout the house. Okay, fine, But then when I
Speaker 1: go to change the volume, I try to change it
Speaker 1: across all the speakers at once, and I have not
Speaker 1: been able to figure out a way to do that.
Speaker 1: I can do them individually, but I can't figure out
Speaker 1: the whole home like one volume everywhere. And sons I
Speaker 1: keep coming back to because number one, it's Switzerland, you
Speaker 1: can use any service you want. With the HomePod. You
Speaker 1: really got to use Apple Music, which is fine. I've
Speaker 1: resubscribed to it. But it's one of these things where
Speaker 1: you know, once you go down this HomePod route, you
Speaker 1: are beholden to the iPhone. And I've always been sort
Speaker 1: of a platform agnostic kind of person, like I like
Speaker 1: to have stuff that is not just one company, because
Speaker 1: then I'm ruled by one company. And that's what I
Speaker 1: liked about the Google homes is that you know, they
Speaker 1: work with YouTube Music, they work with you know, what's
Speaker 1: the other one, Spotify, But you know, then you go
Speaker 1: up to Sonos and it works with everything, I mean everything.
Speaker 1: So what I loved about Sonos is that on one screen,
Speaker 1: my home screen, I had my favorite playlists from iHeartRadio,
Speaker 1: my favorite playlist from Apple Music, my favorite playlist from
Speaker 1: spot and my favorite playlist from YouTube Music. And yes,
Speaker 1: at one point I was subscribed to all those things.
Speaker 1: I still kind of am. But yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: them are like free trials, like Spotify. My credit card
Speaker 1: gave me like and I know, they gave me like
Speaker 1: six months free of Spotify. It's one of these things
Speaker 1: where they want you to sign up and then forget
Speaker 1: about it and then all of a sudden you get charged,
Speaker 1: like the nine ninety nine, and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: so they just got a free month. Anyway, So anyway,
Speaker 1: the home pod is fantastic. I immediately ordered one for my sister.
Speaker 1: It was shipping in like mid December, by the way,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if that's going to change. But
Speaker 1: if you want one of these things. You better order
Speaker 1: it because you might not have it by Christmas. It's
Speaker 1: just great. I mean, I really really think that Apple
Speaker 1: did a fantastic job. And don't forget people are gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound as good as but here is the thing.
Speaker 1: It works with the iPhone. So many people that have
Speaker 1: the iPhone are going to purchase this product just because
Speaker 1: it is an Apple product, and yes does it. Am
Speaker 1: I an audio file that can tell you whether it
Speaker 1: sounds precisely as good as the Sonos or as good
Speaker 1: as the you know, Alexa or the whatever from Google,
Speaker 1: But no, I can't tell you that. I could just
Speaker 1: tell you from my ears. When I plug this thing in,
Speaker 1: it sounded phenomenal, and I feel like the sound fills
Speaker 1: the room in a bigger way than definitely the Google Home,
Speaker 1: maybe on par with the Sonos. And I don't have
Speaker 1: enough experience with the Alexa stuff or the Echo stuff
Speaker 1: to really give you a comparison there, but I can
Speaker 1: tell you that this sounds pretty darn good, and pretty
Speaker 1: darn good means that Apple is going to sell a
Speaker 1: bazillion of these things for a hundred bucks. It's like
Speaker 1: doling out candy to kids. And those kids are the
Speaker 1: iPhone users and one hundred dollars. Yeah, people are gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: it's more expensive than you know, the Google Home is
Speaker 1: only fifty and the echoes or are really discounted. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: I get that, but again, this is Apple. Now. If
Speaker 1: we are in normal times, you'd be in an Apple
Speaker 1: store going for a screen repair and you'd see this
Speaker 1: little speaker and you'd be like, whoa, what's that? Hundred bucks? Boom,
Speaker 1: take my money. But you know, we're in a pandemic.
Speaker 1: Things are a little different. It's gonna take people some time.
Speaker 1: But from everything I've seen, I haven't really read a
Speaker 1: lot of reviews on the HomePod just yet, but I
Speaker 1: have a feeling when I do, people are gonna say
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, this thing is pretty awesome. Let's see
Speaker 1: what a review saying. Verge says doesn't sound as good
Speaker 1: as similarly priced competitors. Okay, well whatever, Tech Crunch, remarkably big, sound,
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, showdown Guardian. Let's see is anyone acceptable
Speaker 1: in gadget and acceptable Echo Alternative? Oh give me a break,
Speaker 1: come on, okay, Fast Company. For Apple fans, this ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars smart Speed a no brainer Forbes, dead cheap,
Speaker 1: dead sheep. It's not dead cheap. Come on, dead cheap, David,
Speaker 1: Come on. Ninety nine bucks is not dead cheap. Twenty
Speaker 1: bucks is dead cheap. Apple doesn't do dead cheap. It
Speaker 1: sounds like I'm saying dead sheep, dead sheep, dead cheap, depth,
Speaker 1: dead cheap. What do you say dead cheap? Now all
Speaker 1: I hear is dead sheep. H Okay. So bottom line
Speaker 1: on the home pod is, look for one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get this thing, and you're gonna be blown
Speaker 1: away and you're gonna want to buy more, which is
Speaker 1: what's happening to me right now, because now I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking, do I want to maybe upgrade all of
Speaker 1: my Sono speakers and you know, go that route and
Speaker 1: continue down the Soo's route, Or do I want to
Speaker 1: spend half the money and get home Pods everywhere and
Speaker 1: then I'm beholden to Apple for the next year or two,
Speaker 1: you know, because I gotta get my money's worth or
Speaker 1: three or four and stick with Apple Music. Yes, you
Speaker 1: can use other music services. It works with airplay, but look,
Speaker 1: if you want the cleanest, smoothest experience, it looks like,
Speaker 1: right now, you got to use Apple Music. I think
Speaker 1: they mentioned Amazon Music later on. And the delineation here
Speaker 1: is to not have to say on Apple or you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, h Siri, play this song, you know,
Speaker 1: and it'll just default your music default music service, right
Speaker 1: without having to say, play this song on YouTube music. Right.
Speaker 1: That's who wants to say that every time you forget?
Speaker 1: So anyway, let me know what you think I mean. Plus,
Speaker 1: you get all the smart home stuff, which you know,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of starting. You get the smarts of Siri, which,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, series not as good as the other stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, the other assistants, especially Google. But you know
Speaker 1: I did the other night, I said, you know, play
Speaker 1: some relaxing music, and it did that. I think I
Speaker 1: actually think Siri is the best at coming up with
Speaker 1: music to surface versus Google Assistant is really bad at
Speaker 1: that for some reason. I don't know why, but I'll
Speaker 1: be like, hey, play some workout music and it's like
Speaker 1: here's a heavy metal hard rock and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't ever listen to that kind of music, Like why
Speaker 1: would you play that? You know? So anyway, that's my
Speaker 1: thoughts on the home pod Mini, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: you're listening to Rich on tech. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: gonna be my thoughts. Are they the right thoughts that
Speaker 1: everyone else has? I don't know, but these are my thoughts,
Speaker 1: and my thoughts are this is gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the biggest sellers for Apple this holiday season, if not
Speaker 1: for the next year. So take that, enjoy it, and
Speaker 1: let me know what you think, because I, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not an audiophile. I'm just a regular person. And
Speaker 1: when I heard this little speaker, I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: So you let me know if you think it sounds
Speaker 1: fantastic for being a tiny, tiny speaker. That is ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars. All right, let's get to the next question.
Speaker 1: Adam says, we have an eight year old Toshiba satellite.
Speaker 1: On Friday, when I went to shut down, the message
Speaker 1: of update and shut down was displayed, Okay, no problem.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, same scenario, different outcome, no problem. Oh, different
Speaker 1: outcome problem. There was a blue screen with refreshed might help.
Speaker 1: It didn't. Paid closer attention the second time page fault
Speaker 1: in non page area t M com dot sis. I
Speaker 1: have an appointment with Best Buy tomorrow, see if it
Speaker 1: can be fixed. If not, what would you recommend as
Speaker 1: a replacement. It's used for Facebook, Yahoo, mal angry birds, Google, searches,
Speaker 1: word Excel, and visiting websites. Anything else you can think
Speaker 1: of is appreciated. Well, eight year old computer to Shiba satellite,
Speaker 1: i'd say, is getting kind of up there. I would
Speaker 1: probably see how much it costs to be fixed, if
Speaker 1: you know best buy. I can't imagine this is going
Speaker 1: to be a cheap fix. I mean, maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's one hundred hundred and fifty bucks, fine, But honestly,
Speaker 1: I would not invest much more into this laptop than that,
Speaker 1: because you can get a perfectly replace perfectly acceptable replacement
Speaker 1: for you know, five to six hundred dollars, So I
Speaker 1: would I would probably replace it after eight years. It's
Speaker 1: this thing is slow. It's buggy. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: a small hard drive, you got not much memory on it.
Speaker 1: It's it's really starting a lag when it comes to
Speaker 1: opening programs and you know, just running in general. Now,
Speaker 1: the things you're doing on this computer are pretty simple,
Speaker 1: so that's why you know it's still fine. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a replacement would probably be better. If this
Speaker 1: repairs anything over one hundred and fifty dollars. So with
Speaker 1: that said, I like to recommend Costco as a good
Speaker 1: place to find a replacement laptop. They don't stock a
Speaker 1: ton of laptops, but you know, if they have one
Speaker 1: or two, they're usually a fantastic deal. And what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is that you know, these are kind
Speaker 1: of curated selections, they're just remembers. So no matter what,
Speaker 1: if a laptop is five hundred dollars at Costco and
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars at best Buy and it's the same laptop,
Speaker 1: you're literally gonna get either double the memory at Costco
Speaker 1: or you know, double the hard drives. Something is going
Speaker 1: to be better on the specs. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more specked out for the same price.
Speaker 1: And that's because Costco is a private club. It has
Speaker 1: a membership and a private club. It sounds so fancy,
Speaker 1: you know, anyone can join, but the reality is they
Speaker 1: always get a little bit of a better deal for
Speaker 1: their members, especially on the electronics. So I would go there.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a membership to Costco and you
Speaker 1: know you want to go to best Buy and buy something,
Speaker 1: usually I'd recommend the Microsoft Store because when you buy
Speaker 1: stuff from there, it the computers are not filled with
Speaker 1: bloatwear like they are at Best Buy. But Microsoft Store
Speaker 1: is all gone now, so and I don't feel like
Speaker 1: you want to spend the money on an Apple laptop
Speaker 1: because those are basically double the price. So I would
Speaker 1: just go into best Buy with that five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: budget and find something that is, you know, just talk
Speaker 1: to the folks there and see what they sell the
Speaker 1: most of or you know whatever. But don't go with
Speaker 1: a two hundred dollars chromebook. Don't just don't make that mistake,
Speaker 1: because it'll be it's underpowered from day one, it's under
Speaker 1: powered from day twenty, and it's underpowered day three hundred.
Speaker 1: So all I hear about is people complaining about chromebooks.
Speaker 1: They love them and they hate them. They love them
Speaker 1: that they're so cheap, and then they get at home
Speaker 1: and all they do is say it's a little slow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it's slow. It's got like one gigabyte of RAM.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, these things are so underpowered. How
Speaker 1: do you think they sell them for one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks? I mean, you know, what's the margin? There.
Speaker 1: They probably make them for twenty you know, so just
Speaker 1: you know, be aware. Now, I think you could get
Speaker 1: away with a Chromebook here, because everything that you're doing works,
Speaker 1: you know, on a Chromebook. Just get a nicer model,
Speaker 1: you know, like get a higher end model. I would
Speaker 1: say minimum. I'd say, you know, I like to see
Speaker 1: like four to eight gigs a RAM and then at
Speaker 1: least a sixty four gig hard drive. Now again that
Speaker 1: sounds really low for a laptop, but we're talking chromebooks,
Speaker 1: so you know, do what you want. But I would say,
Speaker 1: go the best, go to the cost go route, and
Speaker 1: hopefully you'll find something there. All right, good luck on that.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the next story. I feel like
Speaker 1: this podcast is like Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple Apple,
Speaker 1: but I got a lot of Apple stories. I mean,
Speaker 1: this company is a force to be reckoned with. They
Speaker 1: got a lot going on. I'll do two in one.
Speaker 1: How about that? Two and one? Mac os Big sur
Speaker 1: is available and I have not downloaded it yet for
Speaker 1: my computer, so I can't tell you exactly how awesome
Speaker 1: it is or not awesome, but I will be I
Speaker 1: think I might spend the afternoon today doing that. I
Speaker 1: like to do a clean install, which means I like
Speaker 1: to factory format my computer and install the new operating
Speaker 1: system fresh. I don't recommend that everyone does that, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to start over. It takes time. It takes
Speaker 1: much more time to do it that way. But I
Speaker 1: like to do it that way because I find that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm running you know, I'm a tech person,
Speaker 1: you know, a tech reporter, and so I'm downloading stuff
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm trying out new programs, downloading video files.
Speaker 1: There's fragments of garbage everywhere all over my computer. So
Speaker 1: I like to start fresh once a year when a
Speaker 1: new operating system comes out, because it gives me a
Speaker 1: chance to kind of like, ah, like everything is fresh again.
Speaker 1: The downside is that inevitably I forget about ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of these settings and programs that I had installed
Speaker 1: in my computer. And you know, the next like three
Speaker 1: weeks after I do any sort of update, I'm just
Speaker 1: scrambling for everything. I'm like, Ah, where's my little program
Speaker 1: that keeps my computer alive? Ah, where's my little program
Speaker 1: that hides my desktop ICMS? Ugh, where's my Google backup? Oh?
Speaker 1: I gotta install this scanner driver again. H I gotta
Speaker 1: install my printer driver again. So I don't recommend it,
Speaker 1: but for me, it's just kind of the thing that
Speaker 1: I do. And now that I think about it and
Speaker 1: I'm talking through it, ugh, it sounds like such a nightmare,
Speaker 1: but I will. I guess I'll still do it. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll maybe I'll just upgrade this year and deal with
Speaker 1: a stinky old computer and nothing fresh anyway, big sir.
Speaker 1: From what I can tell, it's kind of like the
Speaker 1: iosing of the MACA. Now. I don't know that for certain,
Speaker 1: but you know, they added something called Control Center, which
Speaker 1: gives you a quick access to things like do not Disturb, displays,
Speaker 1: keyboard brightness and more from the menu bar. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about Safari getting upgraded, and you know,
Speaker 1: Safari is great, but I still use Chrome messages. It's
Speaker 1: all about messages, all about maps. And then of course
Speaker 1: you can run iPhone and iPad apps on the desktop
Speaker 1: if the developers allow it. So yeah, sounds a lot
Speaker 1: like the iPhone is coming to your Mac desktop, which
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like my desktop because it's a desktop.
Speaker 1: I don't If I want my iPhone, I'm gonna use
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But things are merging now these years, these days,
Speaker 1: so maybe you know I'm the dinosaur here, all right,
Speaker 1: So I said I was gonna do two in one.
Speaker 1: This is also Apple related, so don't don't you know,
Speaker 1: get angry at me just yet. I think this is
Speaker 1: the last Apple story of the day, is it? Yes,
Speaker 1: it is, I think it is. Oh no, there's one more.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's so much Apple stuff Apple. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Apple home Airplay two and home Kit support is now
Speaker 1: available on select four k Roku streaming players. So if
Speaker 1: you have one of the four k rokus, you got
Speaker 1: the new operating system nine point four, and Apple Airplay
Speaker 1: two is on some of those devices. Now do they
Speaker 1: give me a list of which devices Roku TV models
Speaker 1: are expected to Let's see, it doesn't give me the
Speaker 1: exact ones. But anyway, the airplay on Roku is kind
Speaker 1: of cool because now you can show your pictures on
Speaker 1: your Roku screen. I'm looking at it right now, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. I've played some music on the TV
Speaker 1: screen through airplay on Roku, and I haven't let me see,
Speaker 1: should try a picture. Let me let me put a
Speaker 1: picture up there and see what it looks like. Because
Speaker 1: that I think is like the best case scenario or
Speaker 1: best use case scenario is that you can see the
Speaker 1: picture on your Let's see play and I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: Roku and boom, do we see it? Come on there?
Speaker 1: It is Tetris effect right on my big screen. So
Speaker 1: I think that's the best case scenario, is that you know,
Speaker 1: you can show your pictures from your iPhone on your
Speaker 1: TV screen. Now I get it. We're in a pandemic.
Speaker 1: Nobody's coming over to the house, so it's like, do
Speaker 1: you really have friends that you need to show your
Speaker 1: pictures to? No. But when this is all over, which
Speaker 1: hopefully it will be one of these days, it'll be
Speaker 1: a cool feature to have. And it's just nice because
Speaker 1: it gives you more flexibility with your iPhone. If you know,
Speaker 1: if you had a Roku and you had an iPhone,
Speaker 1: they didn't They didn't really play very nice over the years.
Speaker 1: Now they play nice and boom. You don't have to
Speaker 1: get an Apple TV, which is a win in my book.
Speaker 1: Now you just saved two hundred bucks. All right, let
Speaker 1: it's get to the next question. H Francis. Oh good Francis.
Speaker 1: Apple question with Apple's new and anouncement today, they didn't
Speaker 1: update the chip in the iMac. I made the decision
Speaker 1: to buy, but was waiting for Black Friday. If anything,
Speaker 1: do you think it's worthwhile to wait for the M
Speaker 1: one chip for that? I don't want the mini as
Speaker 1: by the time I purchased the screen, keyboard and mouse,
Speaker 1: the iMac is cheaper. Always watching on KTLA, app and
Speaker 1: Fox five San Diego, Francis. Thank you Francis for watching.
Speaker 1: All right, Well you kind of okay, So I said
Speaker 1: there was no more Apple stories, but there was kind
Speaker 1: of one more story, and you know it's kind of
Speaker 1: a big one. But Apple this week announced their new
Speaker 1: M one chip, and this is their new processor that
Speaker 1: they put in three new computers, well, I guess three
Speaker 1: existing computers that they've had. The M one is think
Speaker 1: of the iPhone as having its own processor inside that
Speaker 1: Apple makes the the A fourteen Bionic and now you
Speaker 1: have the equivalent of that, but for Apple's laptops or computers,
Speaker 1: I should say, which is really cool because Apple has
Speaker 1: been really really good at getting its processor and its
Speaker 1: software and it's hardware in such sync that it just
Speaker 1: kind of blows away the competition. That's what we see
Speaker 1: with the iPhone. When you do certain tasks on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: notably all of them, they're most of the time faster
Speaker 1: and more battery life. We just see a lot of
Speaker 1: synergies between because Apple creates its own hardware and software,
Speaker 1: and now they're trying to do that same thing with
Speaker 1: their laptops. And already they've introduced three new or sorry,
Speaker 1: three new computers that do this. So the m one
Speaker 1: is inside the MacBook Air, the new MacBook Air thirteen inch.
Speaker 1: They say it's three times three and a half times faster,
Speaker 1: graphics are five times faster, two times faster solid state
Speaker 1: disk drive performance, it's fanless, and you get fifteen hours
Speaker 1: of battery life or eighteen hours of video playback, the
Speaker 1: longest ever on a MacBook Air. Now, I think that
Speaker 1: sounds pretty good. And what I love about this is
Speaker 1: that it's kind of applying, like I said, that iPhone
Speaker 1: magic to their computers. And because Apple is creating that chip,
Speaker 1: they don't have to kind of back into what Intel does. Right,
Speaker 1: the Intel presents them the chip and now they have
Speaker 1: to kind of build everything around it. Now Apple's hardware
Speaker 1: and software engineers can work together to make this chip
Speaker 1: kind of sing on this computer. So the MacBook Air
Speaker 1: is nine ninety nine or eight ninety nine for educational pricing,
Speaker 1: and if you're a teacher or a student or somehow
Speaker 1: in that realm, you can get that education price, which
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks off, which is pretty darn good. Thirteen
Speaker 1: inch MacBook Pro also has the new M one chip.
Speaker 1: It's two point eight times faster than the previous generation.
Speaker 1: Let's see, three times faster than the best selling Windows
Speaker 1: laptop in its class, seventeen hours of web browsing, twenty
Speaker 1: hours of video playback, twice the battery life of the
Speaker 1: previous generation, which is pretty amazing. Previous generation had like,
Speaker 1: you know, ten hours, which really, you know, when you
Speaker 1: actually use your computer, it's more like six. To me,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm just always plugging you in my
Speaker 1: sixteen inch MacBook Pro. But I don't feel like the
Speaker 1: battery life is a strong point on this device. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing too. I mean, thirteen inch MacBook Pro
Speaker 1: with the M one and UH three pound design. It's
Speaker 1: got the uh the touch id on it, it's got
Speaker 1: two Thunderbowl ports, and this is twelve hundred ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars or eleven ninety nine for education. And again these
Speaker 1: are all available, likely by the time you hear this,
Speaker 1: they'll be available within a week if they're not already available.
Speaker 1: There's also a new Mac Mini for six ninety nine,
Speaker 1: which they say is one hundred dollars less than the
Speaker 1: previous generation. Macmini is kind of cool, like I always
Speaker 1: had the dream of using a Mac Mini as kind
Speaker 1: of like my my network server at home plus my
Speaker 1: home entertainment hub for the TV. But I don't see that.
Speaker 1: I don't need that anymore. Everything's in the cloud now
Speaker 1: and I don't keep like a library of videos or
Speaker 1: anything anymore like I used to back in the day,
Speaker 1: Back in the old days of tech, everything was about
Speaker 1: creating this collection of stuff this First it was physical,
Speaker 1: then it became digital, Like I just wanted my digital
Speaker 1: music collection to be so large, or my digital movie
Speaker 1: collection to be so large, or my photo collection to
Speaker 1: be large. And yeah, photos I still keep. But now
Speaker 1: with everything in the cloud and everything streaming, there is
Speaker 1: no need to have anything anymore. And yes, I get
Speaker 1: it they want you to pay that ten bucks a
Speaker 1: month forever, but the and I still get lots of
Speaker 1: emails from people saying I got my music collection and
Speaker 1: this and that, like people are still clinging to this.
Speaker 1: But to me to pay ten dollars or fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: a month for all the music I could ever imagine
Speaker 1: listening to in my lifetime, it's like it's just a
Speaker 1: small price to pay. And yes, it's one of these
Speaker 1: things where it gets pricey over a lifetime. It's probably more.
Speaker 1: Did I buy a CD every month for ten dollars
Speaker 1: or fifteen No, when I was a teen, maybe, but
Speaker 1: you know now, no, you know, you barely buy music.
Speaker 1: Did I buy Did I buy ten dollars worth of
Speaker 1: music every month when iTunes was doing ninety nine cents
Speaker 1: a pop? Probably not? And so yeah, it's more expensive
Speaker 1: probably or for sure in the long term, But in
Speaker 1: the short term it's just to me, it just makes
Speaker 1: so much sense. It's so simple, and there's lots of
Speaker 1: free alternatives out there. I mean, there's free versions of Spotify.
Speaker 1: You can listen to all the music you want on
Speaker 1: Apple on a you know, iHeart radio streaming. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't mind with ads, Like my sister,
Speaker 1: you know, I bought her the home Pod Mini and
Speaker 1: I said, now, you're probably gonna want to subscribe to
Speaker 1: Apple Music once you get this thing. And she's like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I have Pandora. I'm like, oh, perfect, well that works
Speaker 1: with it natively. And she's like, yeah, I don't mind
Speaker 1: the ads. I'm like, what what ads? What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? And she said, yeah, I just listen to
Speaker 1: the ads. I'm like, pay the five dollars a month
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ads. Pandora is like four nine, right, Pandora?
Speaker 1: What's Pandora Pro? I don't even know what do they
Speaker 1: call their Pandora subscription? What they what do they even
Speaker 1: call Pandora Pandora Plus? Let's see how much is Pandora
Speaker 1: plus five dollars a month for no ads? I mean
Speaker 1: come on, that's like so cheap. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: sixty dollars a year to not have to listen to
Speaker 1: any ads. I mean that's not bad. Let's see, search
Speaker 1: and play what you want, but you have to unlock
Speaker 1: by viewing an ad. That's kind of weird. But look,
Speaker 1: you get unlimited skips offline listening, I mean for five
Speaker 1: dollars now, and again you can be saying rich. I mean,
Speaker 1: didn't you just say how you like to save money?
Speaker 1: And this and that it's like, Okay, do you not
Speaker 1: spend five dollars a month on something that is like disposable,
Speaker 1: like a coffee once a month or a beer or
Speaker 1: you know, a subway foot long for five dollars? And yes,
Speaker 1: I guess that sustains you. It's sustenance, it's food. But
Speaker 1: come on, I think that you got if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast and you're considering the home pod Mini,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think maybe you can spring the five
Speaker 1: bucks a month for the Pandora Plus. Now. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of people like to listen for free, and it's
Speaker 1: great that these options are out there, But to me personally,
Speaker 1: like I've I'm always amazed when I'm in an uber,
Speaker 1: you know, someone's driving for a living, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden the ads come up on Pandora, I'm like, dude, dude,
Speaker 1: like just pay the five bucks. Come on, You're your
Speaker 1: passengers will love you for it. I mean, and you
Speaker 1: you have to sit there and listen all these ads
Speaker 1: every you know, when I was, you know, and I
Speaker 1: try to look I try to test this stuff so
Speaker 1: that I can see, you know, like as a you know,
Speaker 1: just try to get all the different angles of things.
Speaker 1: I like to test a lot of stuff, and so
Speaker 1: I've gone through and I've said, okay, let me see
Speaker 1: what it's like to have Pandora with ads, and it's
Speaker 1: a lot of them. I feel like, actually spotify same thing.
Speaker 1: It's like. Oh, so anyway, if you have the ads,
Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm not judging you for it. I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to put everything in perspective. So yeah, Francis,
Speaker 1: to answer your question about the iMac, I think you
Speaker 1: made the right decision. I think you're fine the iMac.
Speaker 1: I think you get much more bang for your buck
Speaker 1: with the iMac than you would with any of those
Speaker 1: laptops with the M one chip. The iMac is still
Speaker 1: you know, it's fine, and I think you did the
Speaker 1: right thing. Yes, you can wait for the iMac to
Speaker 1: have the M one, but I think that it's probably
Speaker 1: best if you need a new computer and you're looking
Speaker 1: for those Black Friday sales. Usually Apple does a one
Speaker 1: or two day sale during Black Friday, so wait for
Speaker 1: that day if you can. I can't tell by your
Speaker 1: email if you already purchased it or not, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think you'll be fine, and the iMac is what
Speaker 1: I want too. I mean that's you know, like I
Speaker 1: want like a computer for my house, like a I've
Speaker 1: said this just a minute ago with the iMac, but
Speaker 1: I want like a base computer to like have it
Speaker 1: like the desk. I don't know why for like the
Speaker 1: kids and stuff. They all they have their own, but anyway,
Speaker 1: be nice. All right, are you done listening to me yet?
Speaker 1: You're still tuned in? Okay, I guess if you're still there,
Speaker 1: we'll continue. Let's talk about Instagram this week. Big changes
Speaker 1: to Instagram. They have modified the program, and of course
Speaker 1: everyone hates it, including myself and my so they added
Speaker 1: a reels tab and a shop tab. The reels tab,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I can I can do that. I can
Speaker 1: totally do the reels tab. I'm fine with that because
Speaker 1: reels are funny. It took me a little bit to
Speaker 1: warm up to them. But they're fine. They're creative. People
Speaker 1: are having fun with that short little content. You know,
Speaker 1: it's basically their their TikTok. The shopping tab, come on.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit annoying because I don't know one
Speaker 1: person who's ever shopped for something on Instagram. Now I
Speaker 1: say that as someone who does technology reporting, and you know,
Speaker 1: everyone wants to buy the stuff that I'm post on
Speaker 1: my Instagram and I'm not like your typical influencer that's
Speaker 1: actually selling this stuff, but I can get that. I
Speaker 1: can see that if you were making a living on
Speaker 1: selling the stuff that you talk about or linking to
Speaker 1: it or whatever, like the shop tab is cool and
Speaker 1: products are on Instagram, like I follow, like my thing.
Speaker 1: When I find out about a new product that I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not ready to purchase just yet, or even
Speaker 1: a hotel, like almost anything that I want to do
Speaker 1: in life, I will. I will follow on Instagram because
Speaker 1: that's kind of like my bookmark, and so of course
Speaker 1: I'll see their posts incessantly, like like let's say I
Speaker 1: follow a hotel that I want to stay at next thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm seeing their posts like every day of
Speaker 1: my life, and so I'm like, okay, I do want
Speaker 1: to stay there. I do want to stay there, but
Speaker 1: like not right now, and eventually it wears me down
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, I'll either book or unfollow them.
Speaker 1: And I can see that with shopping, I do a lot,
Speaker 1: Like when I want to buy something or keep tabs
Speaker 1: on a product, I will follow it on Instagram, and
Speaker 1: so I get why the shopping tab is there, because
Speaker 1: they want you to be able to go there and
Speaker 1: see the stuff that all these things that you're you know,
Speaker 1: following or selling. I personally have never purchased something through Instagram.
Speaker 1: I don't ever see myself doing that. They don't have
Speaker 1: my credit card. As far as I know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know how that process would work. Maybe I should
Speaker 1: try buying something and seeing. But I'm sure people do,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's why they did this. But the
Speaker 1: let's see, they say, our focus has always been on
Speaker 1: young people and creators because they're trend setters. We've seen
Speaker 1: an explosion in short entertaining videos. Yeah, I get that,
Speaker 1: and we've seen now here read between the lines share.
Speaker 1: We've seen an incredible amount of shopping move online. Yeah okay,
Speaker 1: with more and more people buying online and young people
Speaker 1: looking to their favorite creators for recommendations on what to buy.
Speaker 1: So in this blog post, Adam Osuri, the head of Instagram,
Speaker 1: never says that people are actually shopping through Instagram, but
Speaker 1: they are getting recommendations through Instagram, So I get that.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to capitalize on the whole movement of Yes,
Speaker 1: everyone gets their recommendations from online and especially their influencers. Now,
Speaker 1: I was a little bit of a brat on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and when the uh, I see the CEO of Instagram,
Speaker 1: Adam Mosseeri, head of Instagram. So he tweeted and said,
Speaker 1: this week we added reels, tabs and shopping given how
Speaker 1: important video and shopping are to Instagram, that's it. And
Speaker 1: I said, I retweeted him and said would have been
Speaker 1: more useful as an Amazon shopping tab, being a little
Speaker 1: facetious because saying like I do all my shopping in Amazon.
Speaker 1: And he actually tweeted me back, which I feel bad
Speaker 1: about now because I was being a little brat, and
Speaker 1: he said, we're looking to build a windows shopping experience,
Speaker 1: a place where you can browse and check things out,
Speaker 1: not a search for a specific product experience where Amazon
Speaker 1: and others shine. And I got to hand it to him.
Speaker 1: He kind of like he got me right in the gut.
Speaker 1: He's like, dude, he like checked me. He's like, come on, bro,
Speaker 1: He's like, I see what you're saying. You're trying to
Speaker 1: be a little brat by tweeting this. And I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say here's what we see, what we're doing versus
Speaker 1: what youth. You know, we're trying to be. You know,
Speaker 1: KOI about or is KOI the right word? What's KOI mean? Koi?
Speaker 1: Cooi means making, oh, making a pretense of shyness or
Speaker 1: modesty that has tended to be alluring. Okay, never mind
Speaker 1: us that is not what I meant. Okay, never mind,
Speaker 1: koi is not Okay, that's never mind. Let's strike that
Speaker 1: from the record. I didn't mean koi. I meant Brady.
Speaker 1: So what's another word for Brady? It was like facetious,
Speaker 1: self centered, spoiled Brady, badly behaved. Yeah, it's kind of me,
Speaker 1: so I get it. It's a way of shopping of
Speaker 1: you know, looking at all this stuff and kind of
Speaker 1: getting ideas. Personally, I spend enough money. I don't need
Speaker 1: any more ideas on how to spend my money. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be looking at that shopping tab anytime soon.
Speaker 1: But you never know, and it's probably a growing place
Speaker 1: for them, and they see it Amazon. It is funny
Speaker 1: because I was shopping on Amazon the other day and
Speaker 1: I realized Amazon must have this amazing like you know,
Speaker 1: they call it like the imposter syndrome when you're successful
Speaker 1: but you feel like you shouldn't be. Amazon has some
Speaker 1: form of that because think about it, they're like the
Speaker 1: most popular place to shop online, but they can't upsell
Speaker 1: you if their life depended on it. When was the
Speaker 1: last time you went on Amazon to order the water
Speaker 1: filter if you're fridge like I did yesterday, and suddenly
Speaker 1: they upsell you and they make you know, like you're
Speaker 1: at the checkout at Ralphs and they, you know, sell
Speaker 1: you a pack of gum or mince or chocolate bar.
Speaker 1: Amazon cannot do that. I mean, there's like almost no
Speaker 1: way like eh, And they've tried, you know, they put
Speaker 1: these little things like oh did you forget this? It's
Speaker 1: like it's always the worst recommendations. I don't need it,
Speaker 1: and I rarely do I ever go on for my
Speaker 1: hair product and then all of a sudden find myself
Speaker 1: buying some other random thing at checkout on Amazon. That
Speaker 1: must frustrate the heck out of Amazon, because if they
Speaker 1: can figure out how to add a dollar two, three,
Speaker 1: four five bucks to an order times a billion orders
Speaker 1: a day or whatever they get, they would be doing
Speaker 1: even better. And this is what we always talk about
Speaker 1: here in my house with Amazon Fresh, because we do
Speaker 1: a lot of the grocery ordering, is that I feel
Speaker 1: it's so bad that someone has to go and they
Speaker 1: got to collect my stuff and bring it to my house.
Speaker 1: But the reality is it's cheaper for me to order
Speaker 1: that on Amazon and tip the person that gives it
Speaker 1: to me than it is to go to Ralphs. Because
Speaker 1: when I go to Ralphs for twenty five dollars worth
Speaker 1: of stuff, I inevitably end up walking out with fifty
Speaker 1: to seventy five dollars worth of stuff because when you
Speaker 1: walk through those aisles, you see a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff that you don't really need. And on Amazon that
Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. There's no filing you through a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of aisles to get to the milk. You just
Speaker 1: order milk, you put it in there. And the flip
Speaker 1: side is on Amazon, you see your ongoing total of
Speaker 1: what you're spending, and so that's even better because you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm getting close to one hundred bucks. I don't want
Speaker 1: to spend that much right now. Let me take a
Speaker 1: couple items out. So that's what's going on with the
Speaker 1: whole shopping Instagram. We'll get used to it. I just
Speaker 1: don't like how they move the hearts now up to
Speaker 1: the top. And I still you know what, while I
Speaker 1: had Adam Moosseeri's ear, I should have said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reply to him and say, hey, can you
Speaker 1: please can you please surface out or separate out people's
Speaker 1: comments from the likes. I don't need to see every
Speaker 1: time I've said this before, I don't need to see
Speaker 1: all the people that liked my picture. All I want
Speaker 1: to see is people that comment so I can respond
Speaker 1: to those comments. That would be much more useful to me.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Reels is right in the middle now. Ooh
Speaker 1: oh wow they moved create to the top. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's really different. Okay, wow, okay, yeah, Instagram's changed. All right.
Speaker 1: Do I have time for one more question? This a
Speaker 1: quick one, we'll do phase. A few months ago, you
Speaker 1: afford mentioned affordable pet insurance and I've been looking for
Speaker 1: that information ever since. Wow, you've been looking for this
Speaker 1: information for several months, FAE. Oh my gosh, sad. Sorry,
Speaker 1: can you send me that information? Yes, it's Lemonade dot
Speaker 1: com slash pet. Lemonade does fantastic insurance for your renters
Speaker 1: in house. Let's see, Yeah, they do renters and let's
Speaker 1: say lemonade. Yeah, renters, homeowners insurance, that's what it's called
Speaker 1: homeowners and now pet insurance. And the prices are just fantastic,
Speaker 1: So definitely check it out. And it's it's pretty legit.
Speaker 1: If you're like, oh my gosh, this is like fifty
Speaker 1: percent of what I'm paying for State Farm or all
Speaker 1: Stay or whatever. But just just do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty good. It's fantastic pricing. They don't have
Speaker 1: to pay all the agents. I guess. Oh sorry, I
Speaker 1: know everything I say on this show I offend somebody,
Speaker 1: Like someone out there is an agent for one of
Speaker 1: these things, and they're like, rich, why are you recommending this?
Speaker 1: There goes my job. Sorry. I am not the person
Speaker 1: that invents this stuff. I am just the person that
Speaker 1: talks about it. So I can't keep progress from happening.
Speaker 1: I can't keep these companies from coming up with new
Speaker 1: and different and unique ways of doing stuff. I just
Speaker 1: tell you about it, and it's your life. You decide
Speaker 1: whether you want to embrace it or not. You don't
Speaker 1: have to. Let's see next question Sandra says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: how do I delete my Facebook account? I have years
Speaker 1: of history and photos on there? One? Will it be
Speaker 1: completely deleted? Or will Facebook always have it? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Oh where's the second question? Okay? One? Will it be
Speaker 1: completely deleted or a Facebook? Okay, thank you? So Facebook
Speaker 1: will have it for a while. I think even after
Speaker 1: you delete your stuff, that stays in their servers for
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time. I don't know how long
Speaker 1: that time is. I would assume ninety days to six months,
Speaker 1: depending on what I'm sure it's in there. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's in there like facts FAQs, so you can check that.
Speaker 1: But the way to delete your Facebook account is two steps.
Speaker 1: Number one, you have to download all of your data.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to do that, but I
Speaker 1: personally would you say? You have all your years of
Speaker 1: history and photos on there, so you probably want those.
Speaker 1: So go to Facebook. There's like a let's see download
Speaker 1: a copy or Facebook data. Go to settings and privacy
Speaker 1: settings your Facebook information, download your information, and then view
Speaker 1: and you can download all of your stuff. Then once
Speaker 1: you download it, you can delete your Facebook page or
Speaker 1: your Facebook account fully. And the way I find that
Speaker 1: is a website called just Delete dot me. Just delete
Speaker 1: dot me and search Facebook and it will take you
Speaker 1: to the link that deletes your account, which is oh gosh,
Speaker 1: it's so sad when you go to that link. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it, and then you can delete. Look at download
Speaker 1: your information. You have eight hundred and ninety three photos,
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty posts and more uploaded to Facebook. Now.
Speaker 1: I actually at one point deleted my entire I did this.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about this on the podcast. It's
Speaker 1: really I'm done with deleting my accounts because I did
Speaker 1: that with Facebook as well. I deleted my entire account,
Speaker 1: and now it makes me so sad because I wish
Speaker 1: I could have I want my entire history. I want
Speaker 1: to see what I posted fifteen years ago on Facebook
Speaker 1: or whatever. It was probably fifteen at this point, and
Speaker 1: now I can never see that because it's gone. I
Speaker 1: deleted it now. I downloaded it, I think at some point,
Speaker 1: but who knows, I'll never find that file. So don't
Speaker 1: delete these things unless you really really have to. That's
Speaker 1: my advice. Let's see, do we have any other things?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I never talked about the Xbox and
Speaker 1: the PlayStation. Well, I'll just give you those that my
Speaker 1: quick thoughts. I'm not a gamer. You don't tune into
Speaker 1: this show for my gaming advice, so I'll just give
Speaker 1: you my impressions of these two boxes. PlayStation five, big
Speaker 1: old Honkin device. It is huge, it is large, it
Speaker 1: is in charge. It is amazing. The graphics everything about
Speaker 1: this device just screams power, power, power. The controller is
Speaker 1: just fantastic. The haptics are amazing. This is the device
Speaker 1: to get if you are the gamer that just wants
Speaker 1: the best of the best. You want the home entertainment center.
Speaker 1: It's got the Blu ray Player in the top of
Speaker 1: the line model. It's just a big old machine, and
Speaker 1: of course you have to like the games as well.
Speaker 1: But the controller is really really improved and kind of
Speaker 1: it's pretty. I think it's what sets the PlayStation five apart,
Speaker 1: other than the IP you know, the games that they
Speaker 1: have the I love it. It's not for me. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't game enough to have a system that powerful.
Speaker 1: But if you do, it's you're gonna love it, and
Speaker 1: it's awesome. The Spider Man game I played looked like
Speaker 1: it was filmed in New York City. It was so clear,
Speaker 1: it was so realistic. I always want to be a
Speaker 1: gamer when I play these games to test these things out,
Speaker 1: Like I'm like sitting there playing for like an hour,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, oh, I could be a gamer.
Speaker 1: I could be a gamer, but I can't. I'm a
Speaker 1: casual gamer. And that's that's just kind of where I'll
Speaker 1: I think I'll sit for the rest of my life. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: amazing the Xbox they sent over the digital version. The
Speaker 1: digital version is fine. I don't think it's the most
Speaker 1: powerful box. I think if I was gonna get a
Speaker 1: PlayStation or sorry, an Xbox, I would definitely go with
Speaker 1: the x which is the more powerful machine and it
Speaker 1: has the drive on it. So the digital one is fine,
Speaker 1: And that three hundred dollars price point is really going
Speaker 1: to attract a lot of people. But I think I
Speaker 1: think you're doing yourself a little disservice by not spending
Speaker 1: the extra two hundred dollars and going with the best machine.
Speaker 1: So you're getting, you know, a slightly lesser processing power machine,
Speaker 1: you're getting no drive, and you're getting you know, you're
Speaker 1: getting half the storage space. And believe me, these games
Speaker 1: take up a lot of storage. Like some of them
Speaker 1: are like ninety eight gigabytes, and the drive on the
Speaker 1: digital one is like five twelve. The drive on the
Speaker 1: bigger one is like a terabyte. So I think that
Speaker 1: you'd be better served getting the Xbox Series X over
Speaker 1: the S. I would say, only get the S if
Speaker 1: you are sure that you're going to be fine with
Speaker 1: the lower power and the less storage and no drive.
Speaker 1: And I think the Xbox is more my flavor. It's
Speaker 1: got the games is amazing whatever they call it, what
Speaker 1: do they call the game pass thing? All access? So
Speaker 1: the way they're pricing these machines is you can buy
Speaker 1: it up front for three hundred or five hundred or
Speaker 1: is it three hundred or four hundred? The Xbox is,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, I should know this because I just wrote
Speaker 1: this story three hundred or I think it's five, yeah,
Speaker 1: five hundred, so three hundred or five hundred, and I think, okay,
Speaker 1: the PlayStation five is four hundred or five hundred, and
Speaker 1: the Xbox is three hundred and five hundred. So the
Speaker 1: Xbox All Access. Oh sorry, I'm getting everything wrong here.
Speaker 1: Should I just start over? No, I'll just can I'll
Speaker 1: just power through this. The okay, so you've got two versions.
Speaker 1: This is why I don't talk about gaming stuff because
Speaker 1: I'm not a gamer, but I appreciate gamers, and I
Speaker 1: think that in your world, if you're a gamer, it's
Speaker 1: a whole different world than what I. All I know
Speaker 1: is I see the PlayStation and the Xbox is great
Speaker 1: if you're a gamer and you decide which one you
Speaker 1: want based on what games you want to play, and
Speaker 1: you know all about the games you want to play. Personally,
Speaker 1: I think the Xbox is really cool because I like
Speaker 1: the All Access, which includes the Game Pass Ultimate. So
Speaker 1: if you do the All Access, it's twenty five bucks
Speaker 1: a month or thirty five dollars a month which includes
Speaker 1: the Game Pass Ultimate, So it's kind of like this
Speaker 1: no brainer thing where I'm not usually a fan of
Speaker 1: like splitting up the monthly payments, but it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: for thirty five dollars a month, you get the top
Speaker 1: of the line Xbox and you get this Gaming Pass
Speaker 1: which gives you like one hundred games, which a lot
Speaker 1: of them are pretty cool, and if you have kids,
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna be bopping through a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of games. So I don't know, anyway, I really like
Speaker 1: the Xbox. I don't really see the big excitement with
Speaker 1: the controller there, it's not as like exciting as the PlayStation.
Speaker 1: But for me, I was playing Tetris on the Xbox.
Speaker 1: I'm hooked on Tetris effect, so that's enough for me
Speaker 1: to just love this thing. The kids love Minecraft, so
Speaker 1: that's enough for them to love it. And there's probabrobably
Speaker 1: you know another game or two that I would end
Speaker 1: up finding on there. If that's that's pretty cool. So
Speaker 1: I think that's it for the console talk for me.
Speaker 1: I think you realize that I'm waiting in past my
Speaker 1: knees and I don't really understand and kind of grasp
Speaker 1: all of it, but you get it. If you're a gamer,
Speaker 1: you're picking between these systems. I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, Nintendo Switch is still gonna sell a
Speaker 1: lot this holiday season, Xbox is gonna sell a ton.
Speaker 1: PS five is gonna sell a ton. These things are
Speaker 1: tough to get, and everyone I know is texting me saying,
Speaker 1: Rich can you hook me up? Can you get me
Speaker 1: a PlayStation? Can you get me an Xbox? The answer
Speaker 1: is no, I really can't. I can't. I can't ask
Speaker 1: Nintendo to send you a you know, Mario Kart live.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't do that. I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't put them in that position. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: ask Sony to send you a PlayStation five or to
Speaker 1: help you get an Xbox. It's just you gotta go
Speaker 1: to these websites like everyone else. The now in Stock,
Speaker 1: the brick Seek, Popcart, those are the websites that can
Speaker 1: help you find these things in stock. Just you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta be checking them. Follow people on Twitter that
Speaker 1: tweet out when they're in stock, and you know there
Speaker 1: they'll do it and you'll like for me, I wake
Speaker 1: up pretty early, so a lot of times these things
Speaker 1: are in stock really early. When do you think most
Speaker 1: people are shopping while they're at work. So if you
Speaker 1: can get online, you know, at these random times throughout
Speaker 1: the day, you can find these things in stock. Easy
Speaker 1: as that. Well it's not that easy, but you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, looky, look, we came
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Speaker 1: If you don't debate me online, I'm open to that.
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