I just bought the new 27" iMac with the SSD+HDD combo. By default, it looks like everything is on the SSD (including the /Users folder), which means I'm going to fill up the SSD very quickly. Does ...
For my father birthday I gave him an old iMac G4 so he could have his music collection in a convent location near the speaker set. This scheme used to work great but as of lately the iMac is showing ...
According to TonyMacx86, the mid-2011 iMac lineup integrates the Intel BD82Z68 Platform Controller Hub. Indeed, iFixit’s teardown analysis confirms this. The Intel Z68 platform isn’t set for official ...
While the recent talk surrounding Apple has been focused on the iPhone 4 and its well documented reception troubles, the company is today focusing on bigger and brighter things. Namely, new hardware.
When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...
As part of its radically-redesigned new iMac, Apple announced a new hybrid “fusion drive” for both the iMac and Mac mini. This drive combines a 128GB flash storage drive with a 1TB or 3TB HDD, and ...
This Western Digital Elements SSD gives you 2TB of external hard drive storage you can take anywhere. Now on sale for just $64.99 (MSRP $79.99), this little powerhouse is the storage solution your ...
The folks at Bare Feats have put together a handy look at the performance of four of the five storage options available when custom-ordering a new 27-inch iMac through Apple. These include a 1 TB and ...
The SSD solid-state hard drives included in MacBook Airs or available as an option with other MacBooks are proprietary components. This means that unlike the regular hard drives included in other ...