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Death, Taxes and Hard Drive Failure

August 19, 2011

Hard drives are made to last as long as the warranty these days… like most everything else. If your drive has a three year warranty, the likelihood of it working the full 3 years is very near 100%. That percentage will fall at an unknown rate after the warranty period ends. Your drive may last [...]

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Prevent Mac laptop overheating in your carrying bag

July 1, 2011

Prevent fried MacBooks, and expensive repairs I’ve had a couple of clients fry their MacBooks/Macbook Pros by having them wake from sleep in their laptop bag. This was expensive, and preventable, but only if the user is aware of the issue. I’ve carried my laptops in sleep mode around the world since I bought a [...]

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iPad Battery Care

February 16, 2011

If you have an iPad, or for that matter an iPhone, iPod or even a laptop, Mac or not, you could be burning through your battery’s lifespan quicker than you need to. Apple recommends running the battery charge down to zero once a month, then fully recharging the battery. This advice is good for all [...]

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Apple Announces…

October 20, 2010

Lots of new goodies announced by apple today, including a completely revised MacBook Air line, iLife ’11, and FaceTime (still in beta) allowing video chat between a Mac running FaceTime and an IOS device that is FaceTime capabable. MacBook Air 4 Models, 2 sizes comprise the new line, all with flash-storage, solid state internal drives [...]

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New iMacs, Mac Pros, Magic Trackpad released

July 27, 2010

Mid-2010 iMac The new Mid-2010 iMacs are out, and they are pretty wonderful. the backlit displays are brilliantly sharp, and are powered by upgraded graphic cards. They have faster processors, too. They also feature Hyper-Threading and in the case of the i5 abd 57 processor models, Turbo Boost. The Intel Xeon processors support Hyper-Threading, which [...]

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Mac Minis upgraded

June 15, 2010

Apple just announced the new Mac Mini, with new features: An aluminum unibody enclosure Up to twice the graphics performance Industry-leading energy efficiency An HDMI port and SD card slot The HDMI port will make the new Mini a very interesting solution for Home Theater installations. Basic configurations are: 2.4GHz with 2GB RAM, a 320GB [...]

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MacBook updated, with longer battery life

May 21, 2010

Apple released the new, updated MacBook portables this week, with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and the Nvidia new GeForce 320M graphics card. Battery life is now listed at 10 hours, a radical improvement from the 7 hours the previous model boasted. The MacBook ships with 2 GB RAM (expandable to 4GB), a 250GB [...]

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External Hard Drives – FireWire vs. USB: Why should we care?

December 24, 2009

More and more external drives are offered with a USB 2.0 interface only, without FireWire. Even MacBooks are sold without a FireWire interface. PCs hardly ever have FireWire avaialble. Why should we care? FireWire is a transfer method designed for data transfer. USB was originally designed for device control. That doesn’t matter so much any [...]

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Apple updates Airport, MacBook, and Superdrive Firmware.

December 9, 2009

Apple has posted a few software and firmware updates, which address issues with airport not able to turn off or on, and drive noise with optical drives. The updates should be available through Software Update, so be sure to check there. Apple AirPort Client Update 2009-002 This update fixes a problem we reported on a [...]

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New Macs, new Mouse released today!

October 20, 2009

Apple’s Press release: Apple today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is [...]

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