Back in the ancient days, hard drives were small, floppy disks were plentiful, and email systems choked on attachments larger than a few hundred kilobytes (KB). Fortunately, some geniuses figured out a way to compress the data in files into...
Thunderbolt is a registered trademark of Intel. This is the second in a series of articles on the Rocket Yard discussing Thunderbolt 3 technology. Last week, the first article gave readers a rundown on the history of Thunderbolt, a hardware...
Thunderbolt 3 is the most recent iteration of Thunderbolt, a hardware interface designed to connect multiple external peripherals to a computer at high data rates. This is the first in a series of educational articles to acquaint readers with the...
iOS 10.3 Update with APFS Now Available to public Without a file system, your Mac, iPhone, iPad or even your Apple Watch would not work. A file system is used by an operating system like macOS and iOS to read from...
The USB (or Universal Serial Bus) connection type has been around for almost two decades. Until recently, it was a fairly simple task to make sense of the different USB specifications and the most commonly used connector types. However, the USB...
With sales of Macs reaching an all-time high, there are a lot of new users who are coming over from the world of Windows PCs. After a few years, all computers seem to slow down somewhat, and new Mac owners...
With the holidays just around the corner, readers of the Rocket Yard may very well be considering the purchase of a new Mac as a gift for a friend, a loved one, or themselves. As Macs tend to have a...
Take a look at the MacSales.com home page — even the new home page — and if you’re new to the world of storage upgrades and solutions, some of the terms used might be a bit mysterious. Well, that’s why...
Today’s data storage needs are climbing exponentially; with 1 to 3TB hard disk or Fusion drives increasingly common in high-end iMacs and up to 2TB internal SSD options for the 2013 Mac Pro. With that amount of storage built into today’s...
