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Before we get started talking about TRIM and why you should or should not enable it, let’s just grab a little background, so everybody is roughly on the same page. When you simply “delete” a file on a traditional hard drive, it’s not really “erased.” Instead, its location on the drive is reported to the OS as “empty, even though...
Just a quick reminder: when OS X 10.7 is released later this month, there will be no support for PowerPC applications running under Rosetta. As we've known for several months now, Apple has pulled support for the PPC emulation in...
Target Display Mode on Late 2009 and 2010 iMacs was a pretty neat trick; you connected the iMac to another Mac via the Mini Display Port connector, and the iMac’s display became a second monitor for the first Mac while...
A couple of months ago, I visited the OWC offices and took advantage of OWC Jamie's workbench skills and had him perform some "OWC Love" on my 2011 MacBook Pro by removing the optical drive and replacing it with an...
Apple released the OS X 10.6.8 update last week. According to the Knowledge Base article on this update: The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance...
Apple released Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor on Tuesday. If you follow that sort of thing, you’ve probably already seen plenty of reviews and walkthroughs of the new features, new layout and overall performance enhancements of Apple’s “professional” video editing...
