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Well, here we are… Episode 13 of MuchCast.

In this week’s episode, Chris, Dan, Brian and Kevin talk about some video game, tech and movie goodness. Some of which includes video games Call of Juarez 2, World of Goo, Audio Surf, Unreal Tournament 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Bioshock 2.

In the tech portion we dive into Google Voice and Windows 7 RTM and then cap off the night with some talk about the movies Bruno and Harry Potter. ENJOY.

Run Time: 1:06:09

Download: MuchCast-13-The J-Man (July 28, 2009)

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I am going to say this first, I am not the most technically advanced person in the world.  Especially when it comes to my Macbook.  I have had this laptop for nearly 3 years now and I am just learning most of the shortcuts and how to use it to its fullest.  I really wanted to learn more and putting the newest Windows OS on my life line was a huge step.  The only reason I really wanted it on the laptop was because I wanted to play PC games and use Office.  This was my biggest and scariest experiment to date, installing Windows 7 on it.  I did face a couple of potholes on the way, Boot Camp Assistant was not my friend, but that was my own fault, too many files to partition. I had to burn two dvds because the first one did not work.  But when it was time for the macbook to preform, I was not let down.  This is why I love my 3 year old macbook.

First off, follow the system requirements it gives you, I only have 1 gb of ram and to date that has been plenty.  I have an 80 gb hard drive but I also have a 320gb external.  As long as you have more than 10 gb of space on your laptop and don’t plan on adding tons more to it, you should be all set.  If you cringed at the idea of having less than 3 gb of space left on your laptop, external is the way to go.

That being said, follow my lead.  Go to the Windows 7 download site, download your copy and make sure to write your serial down.  Then burn the iso to a dvd, its easier with the Mac then a windows machine.  After you have that done, I suggest trying out a free trial of VMWare Fusion.  It was a toss up between Boot Camp and VMWare, but when Boot Camp Assistant decided that it could not partition my hard drive, VMWare was the way to go.  I got the trial of VMWare Fusion and then inserted my Windows 7 cd and about an hour later, I was running Windows and Mac, smooth like butter.  I put the image on my laptop hard drive at first but then I moved it over to my external.  Once I opened the image on my external, it just asked if I had moved or copied it, select moved and it makes the changes.

It was a pretty interesting experience, but with VMWare Fusion, it is MUCH better than dual boot.  You can also use Parallels, which I have used before, but Fusion was much easier to use.

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Help the MuchCasters celebrate their tenth episode by downloading this week’s epic. Yes, that’s right, we’re 10 episodes old (even though last week was mislabeled as 10).

This week sees co-founders Dan, Chris and Kevin along with the always enjoyable Kyle talk about video games Halo 3, MLB 09: The Show for PSP, Rockband for PSP and Battlefield Heroes.

We also get into some chatter about Windows 7 RC, TrueCrypt and the wonderful world of TV tuners.

The MuchCasters then cap off the night with an epic review of the movie Transformers 2. I hope you enjoy.

Run Time: 58:07

Download: MuchCast-10-Robocar (June 29, 2009)

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One of the new features that will be introduced in certain skews of Windows 7 is an application knows as XP Mode, a virtualized install of (generally) Windows XP that allows users to run Windows XP apps side by side with programs running on Windows 7.   This seemingly opens up a whole new world of potential when it comes to using virtualization as security.  Having a program running streamline with your main operating system while being completely isolated from the system itself would be quite a boon.  Unfortunately, however, Microsoft may come through and chose convenience over security and leave a few holes open.

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Windows 7

Microsoft has updated their Windows 7 development blog today with some depressing information about how they plan to allow users to migrate from the Beta version of Windows 7 to the Release Candidate – they want us to *shudder* DOWNGRADE to Vista then re-upgrade to the RC!  Of course, they do provide a separate option that will allow users to do a direct upgrade, but the steps they list seem unnecessarily difficult and convoluted when compared to running the upgrade from Vista to 7

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