Category: 715: New MacBooks, Steam for Mac, Preview, Benefits of Hard Drive Replacement

While most machines that come through our shop are pretty straightforward to diagnose and repair, there is always room for surprises. We had one such surprise last week with a MacBook Pro that was brought in for two distinct reasons: the hard drive wasn’t recognized and the machine would not boot from CD. While that…

It’s here! Steam for Mac is here! For those of you who know what I’m talking about, stop reading and go “download it now.”:http://steam.en.softonic.com/ Anyone still here? OK, maybe I should tell you a little about what Steam is and what makes it so awesome. *What is Steam?* Many people have compared Steam favorably to…

Preview is an excellent program for viewing PDF files and images in most any format. There are two features that few of us know about: annotating and marking-up PDFs. It’s a lot like the Track Changes function in Pages and other word processors, and is a great way to share comments with a group working…

Today, Apple updated the white unibody MacBook so quickly and quietly, it didn’t even look as though the Apple Store was down for any period of time! Here are the new specs: * 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (up from 2.26GHz) * 2GB DDR3 memory * 250GB hard drive * 8x double-layer SuperDrive * NVIDIA…

Happy Tuesday, Around the Mad River Valley and in many places worldwide there are invasive species that threaten native flora and fauna. With all the cold rain and snow over the past few weeks, one of those invasive species, Japanese knotweed, was mercilessly beat down and forced to start its growing season anew. Japanese knotweed…