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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 [...]

Complaint Desk: Whose MacBook Pro 7200RPM Drive Sounds Like R2D2?

Written on July 13, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 25 people have commented

Apple users are dedicated defenders and evangelists of the products we love, but we also really like to get together and gab about the problems our devices have. I know I become obsessively detail-oriented whenever I pick up a new piece of Apple hardware, and am quick to overreact to every perceived imperfection I find [...]

NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0

Written on May 25, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 16 people have commented

Today it’s the foundation for all modern pre-installed Windows systems. It replaced the aging FAT (File Allocation Table) file system with a leaner, meaner standard. It’s more secure, more flexible, and has more built-in gadgets than a Swiss Army Knife. It’s NTFS, of course — the New Technology File System.
I grew up with NTFS. I [...]