Sunday, October 4th, 2009
One of my favorite laptop accessories is/was made by an Oregon company and sold in local Mac Stores. They're the ever useful and popular Dr. Bodelin's laptop bumpers. The laptop bumpers raise the back end laptops up by about 1" or so, dramatically increasing air flow thereby reducing ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
I went ahead and picked up the granddaddy of all laptop hard drives for my MacBook Pro - the Seagate Momentus 500GB 7200RPM with SATA 3.0 (model ST9500420AS). I upgraded from a Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM drive and boy, what a wonderful difference!
Using Carbon Copy Cloner, it took roughly 3 ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
After Apple generously replaced my ailing 2.4GHz MacBook Pro with the new unibody 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, I went from 4GB down to 2GB RAM. Even though the new MBP has a faster bus speed and better hard drive, I felt the shortage of RAM when using Final Cut, Photoshop ...
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