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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by DIRECTV what's up everyone welcome back to another episode of ask the Buffalo the show where you can ask me Ashley ask ever any question you might have in the wide world of technology every tuesday we put up a call for questions on technobuffalo com you can leave your question in the post comments or you can send them to me at any time of the day or night at technobuffalo or at Ashley ask Ella make sure you use the hashtag ask the be so I can see it and they'll usually answer between three and five questions every episode let's get answering because this is ask the Buffalo technobuffalo commenter Christian searching ER and a few other people asked me hey Ashley I need a macbook pro for college should I wait for a new model I do not need it until August okay so here's the deal Apple is rumored to drop the non-retina versions of the macbook pro in the next refresh with Haswell processor so you're going to get this great battery life they might be phasing out the non-retina versions and the earliest we're going to see them is late-september but probably October so you might be out of luck on I need a computer by August you may have to go with maybe a macbook air with Haswell if you really want that has well chip or you can get a macbook pro now the best advice I could give you is maybe buy it in September and kind of cross your fingers that you will hit that 30-day return policy where you can give it back and get the new Haswell processors but that's all I got for you sorry Nick Casey Anderson asks hey Ashley will the Moto X be considered a google edition phone considering that google owns motorola i hope so because nobody really liked motoblur it wasn't a very good user interface it was kind of ugly and it was a little bit bloated and I think not many people really enjoyed it so I would imagine that now that Google this is really the first major flagship device that is being created in conjunction with google now that google owns motorola that this device will in fact be stock android vanilla android for all of you vanilla Android lovers out there i got my droid burg shirt on this week that is what it's all about vanilla Android Josh asks hey Ashley what big event is your favorite throughout the year CES ctia III WWDC I would have to say it's a tie between CES and III so III definitely for the sights the sounds I love to be able to go to e3 and see all the new games it was really fun this year being able to see the ps4 and all the indie games and all the really big blockbuster titles and also see the xbox one and everything they had going on and also even go to Nintendo's booth and play some games that reminded me of my good old nostalgia of having a Nintendo when I was a kid but I also really love CES because a there are less lines to do things and see things at CES which at e3 if you've ever been you know there are lines everywhere and CES is a really good chance to meet up with all kinds of journalists that I don't get to see any other time of year so meeting up with colleagues going all the great parties in Vegas it's a really really fun time Peter Barnett says hi not John I what are your thoughts on modaco switch do you think OEMs may one day adopt this technology so for those of you out there who haven't heard of this motor co switch is a mod by a guy named paul o'brien and it actually lets you seamlessly switch between vanilla Android and sense 5 on the HTC One using a shared data set so it's really cool you're able to go back and forth between vanilla Android and since five and you don't have to continually like import say your contacts you would be able to use one set of data for both I really like this idea and I think that while it would be super awesome to have like every flagship Android device do this I don't think it's realistic in the sense of this is a lot of extra time and the other thing is is that carrier testing would be a nightmare we would not see updates even longer periods of time we would have to wait for updates from google because of course carriers tend to keep those updates for months and months and months in testing so I think while an amazing idea and absolutely a great idea it's not super likely so unfortunately modaco switch amazing and I think we'll have to leave that one to the mods before we go want to talk to you for a second about TV directv has over a hundred and eighty-five HD channels that's the number one the best the most and on-demand access to 10,000 plus shows and movies even better US tech geeks get to watch live television on our phones and tablets with the directv app for iOS and Android so you can watch all of your favorite live TV's and movies when you're out and about they have viewing portals for phones tablets laptops and your TV's you're always covered if you're in the mood to catch something on the tube do you want to watch Game of Thrones the last season of dexter well you can get HBO showtime 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