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We just upgraded a 2011 Apple Mac Mini to have an SSD, a second hard drive, and new RAM.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: at 2 minutes in, you should pop the fan cable up, not forward toward us, to remove it. Some people recommend using [...]
The Mac OS includes software RAID options. Using the striping option, you can double your storage and greatly improve your read/write performance. But what is the true performance gain and is it worth doing?
What you need
First, you need a Mac capable of holding at least 2 drives. This is actually a problem [...]
The latest versions of the Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro all show improvements over previous versions. Besides a few changes in connections, physically they are relatively unchanged. The main improvement is in performance.
With the upcoming release of the next Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, the threading performance of your Mac hardware is now [...]
I just wrote about inSSIDer for finding and looking at your WiFi 802.11 signals from a Windows computer. Mac users should try:
KisMAC
Like inSSIDer, KisMAC is free open source software. In our experience it is the best WiFi stumbling software for the Mac, supporting all standard Mac WiFi drivers and using monitor mode and [...]
If you attach a hard drive to a Mac OS X computer, you can erase it using the built-in Disk Utility.
The cheapest way to attach an external drive is with an adapter such as this one for IDE hard drives from Newegg for about $18.
Once connected on a Mac OS X computer, click [...]
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