March 06, 2009
Computer outfitter iFixIt has released a slew of new items in the wake of Apple's recent Mac mini refresh. First, the company's First Look guide has been rewritten to include the following highlights: Both the hard drive and RAM......
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February 24, 2009
Accessory maker MCE Technologies announced that the company is now shipping its OptiBay hard drives for Apple's unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook line. Per MacNN, the drives range in capacity from 250GB to 500GB and arrive with an......
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February 17, 2009
Recently, Apple posted updated Knowledge Base documents referencing how to access the batteries, hard drive and RAM on the new unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. While the 13" and 15" computers come with a hatch that provides easy......
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February 09, 2009
You have Time Machine and other backup programs, but the FireWire hard drives you're backing up to still need some love and attention, especially since the manufacturers haven't always incorporated the most compatible chipsets and controllers, factors which can......
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January 29, 2009
Following a firmware bug discovered late last fall in its Barracuda 7200.11 platform of hard drives that could result in a drive "becoming inaccessible after a power-off/on operation," hard drive manufacturer Seagate has recently released a fix for Mac......
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January 02, 2009
If you own a 30 gigabyte Microsoft Zune player, you may have found out about the bug the hard way. Per Macworld, owners of Microsoft's media player awoke Wednesday morning to discover that their Zune units were frozen and......
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December 23, 2008
Late Monday, Intel announced the newest members of its SATA solid-state drive family, the X25-M 2.5" drive and the X18-M 1.8" drives, the X25-M currently being available in a 160 gigabyte capacity. According to Macworld, the X25-M is shipping......
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December 03, 2008
On Tuesday, accessory maker Newer Technology announced the release of its NewerTech Voyager, a SATA hard drive docking station with support for the FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces. The drive can accept both 2.5" and......
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November 20, 2008
Wednesday night, electronics manufacturer Samsung announced that the company has started production of its 256GB Flash SSD. According to Electronista, the 2.5" solid-state notebook drive offers a sequential read speed of 220MB per second but faster sequential write speeds......
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November 19, 2008
On Tuesday, electronics manufacturer Toshiba unveiled its flagship MK5055GSX hard drive, a 500 gigabyte 2.5" SATA drive boasting whisper quiet operation. According to Electronista, the drive offers an 8 megabyte buffer, read/write power consumption of 1.4 watts and an......
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