This is somewhat psychotic. And it just might work. Per 9to5Mac, a programmer over at iFixit was able to resolve an overheating problem with a MacBook Pro notebook by drilling a ring of holes under each of its fans. With a 1/16” bit, the group drilled holes in the bottom case, under the fans (they […]
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You’re gonna either love or hate this. Per CNET, Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro is the “best performing” Windows laptop. The MacBook Pro won out over established PC makers like Dell, Acer, and Lenovo, according to Soluto, which was quick to explain its finding. A main factor in this machine’s metrics is the fact that every […]
You can’t knock a useful firmware update. Late Wednesday, Apple released its MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.6 for its mid-2012 MacBook Air notebooks. The update, a 5 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixes a color issue with HDMI displays connected to MacBook Air. – Resolves an issue with Windows which […]
There may be ample reason to go with a Fusion Drive inside your Mac. Per Techfast Lunch&Dinner, a series of tests run by the site found the Fusion Drive Mac mini started in just 15.7 seconds, while the 2012 Mac mini with a traditional hard drive took 34.1 seconds to start. Major improvements were also […]
It’s the internal files that hint at the upcoming cool stuff. Per AppleInsider, internal configuration files in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple’s iMac (iMac13,0) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,0), both in the context of USB booting options that indicate the new Mac desktops could, for the first […]