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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...

Preamble:  An internet signal is sufficient for the Apple TV to broadcast pre-loaded content. Broadband is only required to stream content from the internet.   Apple does not have an official 'Apple Store' in Malaysia (although it has an online store). Still, seven days after a polite and obscure email from a Mac diehard to Tim Cook, the omitted Apple TV black appeared online (@ RM349.00 + RM59.00 for the HDMI cable) and thereafter on the resellers' shelves. Apple said it sold 2.5 million units in the first half of 2012, but the black box, despite its apparent bang for the buck, is still an unsung hero in Malaysia. Observation:-   Even in the 21st century, it is expected for April to pack a PowerPoint file, stroll into the boardroom and stick the blue VGA cable into her VIAO. After her thing, she yanks out the VGA and slides it over to Joe, who sticks it into his Dell for his two cents, after which he passes the adaptor to Jill, who doe...