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Make Your Old Mac Feel New

Our versatile and fearless leader Larry O'Connor has posted an informative article in our Quick Tips area, titled "Make your Current Mac feel like it's a New Mac again!" This concise article links to helpful tidbits on how you can possibly get better performance out of your old Mac by upgrading some of its parts, than if you plop down...

Extensions for your Mac Pro. eSATA, that is…

A couple of weeks ago, we showed you how to add a PCIe card to the Early '09 Mac Pro. that's cool and all, but what if all you need is a simple eSATA port? Sure, there's some darn good...

Double-Barreled Disk Burning

This week's instructional video shows you how to add a second optical drive to the 2009 Mac Pro. It's a real simple process, requiring only a small screwdriver and a paper clip. This is a useful upgrade, especially if you...

Integrate just about anything into your Mac Pro.

The Mac Pro has the one thing that's not available on any other Mac: the ability to drop in an expansion card that allows your Mac to utilize other hardware. Jonesing for some good, old-fashioned FireWire 400 connectivity, so you...

Use an old hard drive for handy external storage.

Eventually, you're going to want or need to upgrade to a new computer. Between software requirements increasing and/or damage or malfunctions, a new computer is eventually going to be something you need to consider. When you get a new Mac,...

Grrr, baby, grrr…

One of the Main problems with multitasking is that sometimes you miss an important notification, which grinds things to a halt. Sure, you can arrange all your windows so that they’re all viewable, but unless you have a pair of...

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