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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by AMD what's up everyone welcome back to another episode of ask the buffalo the show where you can ask me Ashley sceva aka not John Redinger any question you might have for the wide world of Technology every Tuesday we put up a call for questions on TechnoBuffalo comm you can leave your comments and questions in that post otherwise you can send them to me any time of the day or night at TechnoBuffalo or Ashley ask Ewa on Twitter just use the hashtag ask the B so I'll see it and usually I answer between three and five questions every episode let's get answering because this is ask the Buffalo TechnoBuffalo comment or Josh asked if you were choosing between chromecast or an Apple TV which would you choose both can do YouTube and Netflix and both work well with iOS devices is it worth it to get a chromecast if you already own an Apple TV well here's the thing Josh so actually as of this recording which is Friday afternoon chromecast doesn't quite work with iOS yet so if I had to choose right this second it would be Apple TV but I think what it really boils down to even with compatibility is two things number one where do you buy your apps and your movies and your television shows and number two what kinds of devices do you have in your home if you're an Android based home and you have an HTC One and you've got a Nexus 7 obviously to me the chromecast is the better choice if you have of course Apple products in your home you want to get an Apple TV because you're able to do mirroring you're able to use airplay there's so many options that Apple TV offers you sure they can both do YouTube and Netflix but the other thing is that a box like Roku does YouTube and Netflix really well so I think depending on what you're looking for in terms of streaming from your mobile device to your television set I would say as of right now if your Google household get a chromecast if you're an Apple person you love iOS Apple TV is the way to go at artistic revenge asks which do you prefer for a smartphone Android iOS or Windows I actually have this dream of a phone that is designed like an iPhone has the same level of productivity as Android I really like widgets but also has the camera of Lumia and the notification system of webOS for me I want that perfect chimera of smartphones and I don't obviously think that'll ever exist because webOS is dead for day-to-day driver I do have an iPhone but I also have an HTC one that I use as a secondary device because I like to have my finger on the pulse of both for right now I do use an iPhone as my daily driver at Kevin Wilson 94 asks it seems like the 3.5 millimeter audio jack is gonna be a limiting factor in thinness do you think we'll see it superseded I do think at some point Bluetooth is going to end up just kind of being a natural part of our smartphone experience so I don't think we'll have headphone jacks anymore on our smart phones but the problem with that is is that Bluetooth technology is not quite the same in terms of there's a lot of tininess to it and a lot of bluetooth headphones and headsets and things like that even in the higher end stuff you just don't get the same rich audio quality that you might see from say a hundred and fifty dollar pair of audio technica cans for your ears for right now I think the audio technology is not quite there it's gonna take a little while to do that and lastly king of tweets asks hey what is your education I did graduate high school and I also have a two year degree of an a a associated the arts degree in English and then I have a four-year degree from Chapman University in television production so um this is definitely not anything that's new to me however I did for a while when I went to school kind of want to write comedy so I wanted to write television which I do get to script stuff still I get to write the show and and all that stuff but um yeah so now I do technology which I've loved since I was a kid with all the great stuff that I learned in terms of my official education so that's where I went for university and it was great but no plans for masters because really this kind of stuff right here for a video production person is your master's degree um you don't necessarily need it working out the field way more important I think before I go I wanted to tell you guys a little bit about AMD's newest chip the a-series mobility APU aloo is tough for a while to find the right chip for mobile that combined media performance with great productivity until now the new a series mobility APU is the world's first quad-core chip designed specifically for tablets and touchscreen laptops like the Acer Aspire v5 it's also adaptive to your choice of environment so let's say you have a hybrid tablet with the mobility chip on board but you want to drop it into the AMD turbo dock well the chip will know it's in there and it'll deliver up to 40% faster GPU and CPU performance by taking advantage of any additional cooling the dock might have available so that's super awesome if you're using a device like the Acer Aspire v5 you have access to a full Microsoft Office suite making it the perfect choice if you need to get some heavy-duty productivity apps going on if you want to learn more about getting the best of both mobile and desktop worlds in your processor head over to AMD comm to check out the a-series mobility APU that's it for this week's ask the buffalo thank you so much for watching please give the show a thumbs up we really appreciate it and check us out at TechnoBuffalo comm for all the latest and greatest tech news until next week I'm Ashley sceva see you next time hey guys Ashley here just wanted to let you know that if you liked what you just saw we've got two other shows that go live every single week Redinger rants where Jon totally goes nuts about issues that bug him across consumer technology and rumor roundup where he tells you all about the best rumors in the world 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