Category: 1030: What’s Slowing Up My Mac?, Mac Pro Revised, Reviewing The New iPad

Flood warnings in the Mad River valley as the snow melts and my neighbors report that Prickly Mountain road is a mess of mud. Down here in Key West, it is getting warmer each day. Jezebel was chasing a big iguana around the yard who decided to hang out on the wall for awhile. I…

I’ll start this article by saying some of this information might come as a bit of a surprise to some of our readers, but I’ve passed up multiple iPad revisions and releases and have been using outdated technology for years! Normally when something new comes out from Apple, that product lands in my hands fairly…

On Tuesday Apple announced some revisions to the Mac Pro. The former $3,999 model is now the $2,999 base model, while the previously built-to-order 8-core model with dual D700 GPUs is now the high-end stock configuration for $3,999. Both models are equipped with 256GB PCIe-based flash storage, four USB 3.0 ports, six Thunderbolt 2 ports,…

Does it seem like your Mac is running slowly? It’s always possible that you need more RAM, a speedy SSD to replace a slow hard drive, or even a new Mac. But you might just have a rogue app that’s hogging your Mac’s CPU. Activity Monitor shows the processes that are running on your Mac,…