Category: 760: Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.7, iPad 2 Setup Issues, Activity Monitor, Heat, and Battery Life

My MacBook Pro was acting strange last week: slow application launch times, incessant beach-balling, fans at full speed all the time, hot to the touch, and miserable battery life. This group of symptoms screams software, not hardware. Excessive heat generation and fan activity can be a symptom of hardware abnormality, but it is most often…

Repair of the Week: iPad 2 Setup Issues iPad 2 is here! Most of what we’ve heard from our customers is very positive, and people absolutely love their new toy. As with any new device, however, we occasionally get a call from someone who can’t get their iPad to work with their computer. Most of…

This Monday, Apple released the seventh major revision of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The maintenance update, which is the first since January, includes several bug fixes and subtle performance enhancements. Additionally, Apple has bundled numerous security improvements into the update–a full list can be viewed “*here.*”:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581 Though the update includes more enhancements and…

Happy Tuesday, I’m writing from our Manchester, NH store today, which is brimming with customers eager to try out an iPad 2, get help and training at our Help Desk, or just touch and feel some of the hottest products on the planet. While you can’t really get an iPad 2 anywhere, they are trickling…