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Apple keyboards have an eject key in the upper right corner that works with built-in Mac DVD drives. If you have a new Mac Mini without an optical drive, you might want to use a 3th party external disk drive. The problem is that the eject key doesn’t work for these drives. Thanks to tjb1 [...] Macs generally don’t have startup problems, but it’s good to be prepared in case your Mac OS X computer won’t start. The normal steps for trying to get a Mac to boot involve pressing keyboard shortcuts during the boot process. From Apple’s keyboard shortcuts page: Startup keyboard shortcuts Press the key or key combination until [...] Snow Leopard The latest version of Mac OS X is out, already with a system update available. It costs $29 but you can find it cheaper at places like amazon.com. Overall it is probably worth getting for most users but it is not without its troubles. The Good The behind-the-scenes components have been optimized to [...] 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 [...] Adding RAM to a computer can be a cheap and easy way to improve performance. RAM (Random Access Memory) is the active memory that your computer uses to think about what it is doing. The memory is lost when your computer shuts down. If you don’t have enough memory, the computer will have to also [...] |
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