Category: 678: Snow Leopard Incompatibilities, Using Spaces, Protecting Against Accidental Damage, Repair of the Week

A customer brought in his out-of-warranty 8-core 3.0GHz first-generation Mac Pro at the end of last week, explaining that the frequent kernel panics were making productivity impossible. This computer was about as upgraded as can be: 32GB of RAM, four hard drives, a fiber channel card for a Promise RAID, and a Nvidia Quadro FX…

With many schools and colleges back in session, we are seeing the usual and predicable spike in accidental damage repairs in our service facilities. It’s very important to remember that a dropped computer, one with a broken screen, or one with any type of liquid damage–no matter how new–has no warranty coverage. Small Dog has…

I discovered recently in an informal poll of my co-workers that I seem to be the only one in love with Spaces. When Leopard was released nearly two years ago, Spaces was touted as one of the biggest new features, allowing up to sixteen separate virtual desktops. While hardly a new idea in the computing…

With each and every major operating system upgrade, there are a handful of programs that just won’t work. Snow Leopard is no exception, and the list includes some anti-virus software, old versions of Parallels (2.5 and earlier), a number questionably useful titles, and even some Apple software (AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow). If…

Happy Tuesday, I left our flagship South Burlington store last night with Owen in the passenger seat, perfect doggy posture and tongue hanging out the side of his mouth, and took the long way back to my home in Moretown. There aren’t many signs of Fall yet, but sumac is beginning to turn brilliant red…