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Macintosh High Tea Meeting Agendas


Wednesday, November 5, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm, in the CyberCenter Meeting Room
NOTE:  Please gather at 3:00 pm, not earlier, to avoid too much early disruption of the Lab, which closes at 3:00 pm.

Tea and crumpets available starting at 3:00 pm (well, the tea is really decaf coffee, and crumpets are provided ad lib by participants -- thanks to Granville Black and Nancy Roll for their assistance with refreshments).

Refreshments starting at 3:00 pm
Program gets under way around 3:10 pm
Introductions of newcomers

Brief Special Topics:
  • the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models released in October -- review of new features and implications for future Macs
  • Backup again -- some considerations with older Macs
Q&A.  We want to emphasize Q&A on things YOU are interested in, so please e-mail me questions and problems you have or info you want ahead of the meeting, to Peter Roll.




Wednesday, October 1, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm, in the CyberCenter Meeting Room
NOTE:  Please gather at 3:00 pm, not earlier, to avoid too much early disruption of the Lab, which closes at 3:00 pm.


Tea and crumpets available starting at 3:00 pm (well, the tea is really decaf coffee, and crumpets are provided ad lib by participants -- thanks to Granville Black and Nancy Roll for their assistance with refreshments).

Refreshments starting at 3:00 pm
Program gets under way around 3:10 pm
Introductions of newcomers
Brief Special Topics:
  • installing OS X 10.5.5 updates - a reprise of last month's 10.5.4 report, using just the Software Update... command
  • Backing up with TimeMachine and SuperDuper -- a demonstration (I hope)
  • Running another operating system in a virtual machine on your Intel Mac -- a demonstration
  • Notes on backing up and the VirtualBox virtual machine
Q&A.  We want to emphasize Q&A on things YOU are interested in, so please e-mail questions and problems you have or info you want ahead of the meeting, to Peter Roll.



Last update P. Roll 9/29/08
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