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∆   Announcement :- Ive transforms Forstall in September 2013  ∆ Setting up the MacBook Pro (depicted below) in 2010

It’s akin to beefing up an old Hillman at the ankles, giving it a new heart and thighs and ask it to reminisce the days of yore. As SSDs make the new PROs and AIRs fast, Danny Dilshod’s 2006 MacBook Black has ejected its lazy HDD for the quick brown fox.

The Dells and iMac with the 'champion' on the table Coldplay • What If  ∆ Although the pre-Thunderbolt iMac 27" 2009 has an MDP port for a second monitor, the remaining USB ports may be channelled to add as many monitors as there are available USB ports via a bang-for-buck USB multi-display adapter. It's a dodgy brand but the nifty Mountain Lion compatible adapter uses a DisplayLink powered hardware and retails at RM155.00 at Sri Computers, Low Yat Plaza, Kuala Lumpur. The DisplayLink driver in the enclosed disk is vintage but a URL is provided for the current version. Once installed, Displays in System Preferences shows up the USB monitor to calibrate, rotate, extend and/or mirror. Understandably, being USB driven, HD movies on the newfound monitor are a tad jittery, but excellent for web browsing, mails, word processing and general reading, which in portrait mode, just adds to the experience. The Dells that stand portrait to the iMac at home...

Tommy Emmanuel • Classical Gas  ∆ Innards of a drunkard Spool juxtaposed with the lockstep of Flash  ∆ From  115 to 255 • The old (CTO) 'bullet train' • 2.8Ghz Core i7 • 16GB RAM • 1067 Mhz • DDR3 (Before) Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm HDD • 115Mbps average  ∆ (After) Crucial M500 480GB SSD • 255Mbps average  ∆  Overview depicting the HDD assembly in the centre  ∆ Close-up of the (blue) Jumper Block, SATA Data, SATA Power and Thermal Sensor plugs  ∆ Prepping the Crucial SSD on a Sandisk 3.5" adaptor  ∆ The (coffee table) workbench  ∆ The 'overkill' glass lifter  ∆ Masking the glass upon removal (for dust and smudge protection)  ∆ Mask the LCD screen before lifting (for dust and smudge protection)  ∆ Remove the RAM cards  ∆ Remove the Vertical Sync cable  ∆ Prop the LCD screen with chopsticks  ∆ Overview of the HDD as...

Preamble:- If the SSD/Firewire option is favourable over HDD/SATA, the plethora of suction cups laden hoops and low drop panel hangings may be deferred (with relief), but eventually though, as the HDD nears the end of its tether, those suckers are to be summoned for the SSD to be plugged onto SATA for a wicked fast boot. Stone Sour • Frozen  ∆ The iMac 24" . Last year, SmartReporter indicated that the 500GB 7200rpm Hitachi 3.5" HDD in the iMac 24” 2.8GHz Extreme (mid 2007) was failing. Data was backed up and to reduce tech downtime, an external boot drive on Firewire was created from the original Leopard install disk and thereafter upgraded to Mountain Lion. The boot drive, a Western Digital Studio, operated without a glitch albeit a lot slower. Eventually, after several months of external boots, the Extreme was taken apart by an ACMT certified tech who replaced the failing internal with a 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3.5" HDD backed up from the...