Tag Archives: Apple

Don’t trust your hard drive – it will fail

Posted on July 9, 2010

If there’s one constant in life, it’s that shit happens – usually at the most in inopportune moment possible. And the greatest disaster that can happen to a computer user is a complete hard drive failure. I spent a couple … Continue reading →

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Troubleshoot OS X like it’s OS 9…

Posted on July 7, 2010

Yesterday a client in Bradford on Avon had an emergency, a deadline and no replacement install disks for raft of applications that suddenly failed to open. A bit of detective work later I realised that the affected applications were all … Continue reading →

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What is SSD and should my MacBook have one?

Posted on June 29, 2010

One of the main reasons that laptop performance lags behind that achieved on desktops is down to one thing. Hard drive performance. Modern computers running MacOS or Windows spend a large part of their time writing temporary data to the … Continue reading →

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Are the new Macmini’s value for money?

Posted on June 17, 2010

Apple have just updated the Macmini, by essentially putting the new MacBook guts into it. But does buying one make any sense? I’ve never quite understood the Macmini, it’s rather a curate’s egg. What you are buying is a basically … Continue reading →

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MobileMe synchronisation problems

Posted on May 26, 2010

Whilst MobileMe is a great way of keeping your Address Book and iCal data synced between multiple Macs, it’s known to have quite a few quirks. You can particularly have issues after migrating data to a new machine that uses … Continue reading →

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