Category: 689: Non-Booting MacBook, Hidden Customization, 10 Tips for Mac Slowdowns

A friend recently sent me an email, questioning why his MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM was “getting slower and slower, with an increasing frequency of the appearance of the SRWOD (spinny rainbow wheel of death).” This is something I occasionally hear about, but haven’t experienced (except for Safari randomly bogging down for several seconds).…

There are myriad of customization options in Mac OS X–some are in plain sight in System Preferences and elsewhere while others involve manual editing of plist (property list) files or tricking the system into thinking one file is actually another. One of the most powerful interface tweaks you can make is to the menu bar,…

It is every service provider’s goal to fix each computer quickly and completely the first time. Every so often, though, we don’t succeed. It is the rare intermittent issues that are almost impossible to accurately predict, diagnose, and repair. We have the option to send laptops to Apple’s repair facilities at our discretion, and we…

Happy Tuesday, We’ve rearranged our South Burlington store in anticipation of our Customer Appreciation Days this Saturday and Sunday. There will be storewide savings including 10% off all Apple software, $20 discounts on 8GB iPod touch and nano, new financing options including a ’90 days same as cash’ deal (sorry, these are all retail store…