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Apple Releases Performance Update, Fixes Hard Drive Stalls

Written on October 15, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 9 people have commented

Apple has released what it calls “Performance Update 1.0,” an update to its Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) operating systems for selected iMacs and MacBooks.
As Apple describes it — in typically brief fashion — in its Support pages, ”This update addresses intermittent hard drive related pauses reported by a small number of [...]

Mac Clones Revisited: Some Companies Know the Difference

Written on January 20, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 1 person has commented

I wrote earlier about Mac clones and where Apple may draw the line. A recent example I gave of the sheer bravado of the cloners was the story of EFI-X USA selling a dongle with PCs as pseudo-Mac clones. The company that supplies the dongle did not approve of this, and I mentioned in my [...]

NetBoot and the Air

Written on January 18, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 4 people have commented

Since I heard that the MacBook Air didn’t come with an onboard optical drive, but did come, instead, with this magic virtual disk feature, I’ve been having a very interesting wonder – does this also mean that NetBoot now works – at least for the Air – over wireless?
And, fresh off the show floor today [...]