Macintosh Consulting and Support (Everywhere)

ac Support, Consulting, Tutoring, and More

Apple Macintoshes are built well and to last. Apple makes extremely good products.

Apple doesn't support its products forever. Neither do I, but I go back further than Apple does, much further.

Your Mac can last longer and run a newer or even the current operating system. GIVE YOUR MAC NEW LIFE!! Ask me how.

Highly experienced, former Apple Certified Technician and AppleCare Help Desk Agent willing to openly share knowledge. Best, most affordable Macintosh Consultant in the Country with my degree of knowledge and experience.

I’ve owned professional Macs that take at least 4 drives or more for nearly 30 years. You learn things that way, things they don’t teach. It’s all documented, well, most of it is, somewhere, but I know it, and know how to find it. I’ll share what I know with you.

Phil The Mac Guy is a comprehensive Macintosh Consulting and Support Business which provides consulting, support, and private tutoring via Telephone, FaceTime, Zoom, and Skype by appointment. Appointments rarely require a wait.

In Depth:

•Issue Analysis

•Troubleshooting

•Testing

•Issue resolution

•Lessons

•Answers

•Insight

Most Macs built within the past 15+ years can run much better than people realize. They are upgradeable to a newer OS than Apple will admit, allowing them to function and operate safely and effectively in today’s world and on the Internet. They are not too old.

Contact me if you have one of the following Macintoshes and wish to run a newer and more current version of the macOS:

Model Name:

MacBook

•MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)

•MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009)

•MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009)

•MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)

•MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)

•MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)

•MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016)

•MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, 2017)

MacBook Air

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2008)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2009)

•MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010)

•MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2011)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)

•MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)

•MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013)

•MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)

•MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)

•MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017)

•MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018)

•MacBook Air(Retina, 13-inch, 2019)

MacBook Pro

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008)

•MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2009)

•MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009)

•MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)

•MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)

•MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

•MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, 4Thunderbolt 3 ports)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports)

•MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports)

•MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)

Mac mini

•Mac mini (Early 2009)

•Mac mini (Mid 2010)

•Mac mini (Mid 2011)

•Mac mini (Late 2012)

•Mac mini (Late 2014)

iMac

iMac (20-inch, Mid 2007)

•iMac (24-inch, Mid 2007)

•iMac (20-inch, Early 2008)

•iMac (24-inch, Early 2008)

•iMac (20-inch, Early 2009)

•iMac (24-inch, Early 2009)

•iMac (20-inch, Mid 2009)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)

•iMac (27-inch, Late 2009)

•iMac (27-inch, Late 2009)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)

•iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2011)

•iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)

•iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Early 2013)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)

•iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014)

•iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)

•iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Mid 2015)

•iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015)

•iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)

•iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)

•iMac (21.5-inch, 2017)

•iMac (Retina 4K,21.5-inch, 2017)

•iMac (Retina 5K,27-inch, 2017)

Mac Pro

•Mac Pro (Early 2008)

•Mac Pro (Early 2009)

•Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

•Mac Pro (Mid 2012)

•Mac Pro (Late 2013)

Xserve

•Xserve (Early 2008)

•Xserve (Early 2009)

Complete system updates, pre-purchase consultations, private tutoring, System/OS level troubleshooting and repair lessons as well as professional help fixing your Mac.

Learn how to troubleshoot and repair without a full reinstall.

Learn enough to fix your Mac yourself next time.

Learn what a .plist file is and why they matter.

Learn about the Libraries, which ones are which, and what they do.

Learn about the Terminal.

Learn what you need to, learn what you want to.

Just Learn.

I don’t horde knowledge, I gladly share.

You’ll never call back for the same or any similar issue, you’ll fix it yourself.

Available via email, telephone, FaceTime, Zoom, and Skype.

Windows and IOS Support now available.

Experience

46+ years computers

39 years Macintosh

33 years MIDI

27+ years Mac Support

Former AppleCare Help Desk Agent and Apple Certified Technician

Entire former Technical Support Team for Mactell

Technical Support for Power Computing Corporation

Computer training decades ago.

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Phil The Mac Guy

$50 per Hour

1 Hour Minimum

https://philthemacguy.com

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Macintosh Lessons

Mac help

Macintosh help

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Pre-purchase consulting

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Microsoft

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Printing

Software

App Store

Photos

Power

Broken

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Erase

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HFS+

Journaled

USB

USB Drive

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Login

Security

Safari

iTunes

Music

Garage Band

Keychain Access

Partition

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Utilities

Install

Remove

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Software Update

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GUID Partition Map

System Settings

System Preferences

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WiFi

iCloud

Mail

iMac

MacBook

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Mac Mini

MacBook Air

Mac Studio

Virus

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Keyboard

Hard drive

Mouse

Broadcom

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Clone

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Error

Library

Preferences

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System

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macOS

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Activity Monitor

Apple Silicon

Intel Core

i3

i5

i7

i9

M1

M2

M3

M4

Rosetta

Rosetta 2

Parallels

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Virtual Machine

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