The Importance of ECC RAM

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Casey: I've had more kernel panics and instability with laptops than I have with Mac pros. There's lots of reason for that you know Zions and Zions motherboards are all made to higher standardsHigher tolerance there's also just ECC RAM which yeah the chances are that your RAM is not going to have an error but if it does have an error it's somewhere you won't notice it. If anyone in Apple wants to send me a Mac pro as a reward for keeping the faith all those years and posting a picture of a matte black sports car saying that I want the next Mac bro to look like that they got the color right, Casey says.

Explaining our podcast artwork.
Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness.
Dual-input displays and how they enable the 5120x2880 display that John and Marco want.
Turbo Boost and the Mac Pro's CPU options.
Using a laptop on a stand with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
The benefits of desktops and ECC.
Mac Pro configurations for best value and future-proofing.
Building separate gaming PCs, switching to iMacs, or trying to wedge PC gaming into Mac Pros.
Mac Pro price stratification over time.
Outlook 2011 for Mac complaints and John's multiple-selection-invalidation bug.
Casey said some stuff at the end.
Special holiday theme song by Jonathan Mann.