Category: 762: Discrete Graphics and RAM, Playing Blu-Ray on Mac, Thanks for the Memory!, 2 iPad 2 Books, eWaste ’11

We’re incredibly pleased to announce our 5th annual eWaste Events! This year we’re holding free eWaste events in both Vermont and New Hampshire. The Vermont event is scheduled for Saturday, May 14th at National Life Insurance Headquarters in Montpelier, VT. Our 2nd annual New Hampshire event will be held on Saturday, May 21st at the…

There’s no denying iPad 2’s rampant success and widespread appeal. While Apple’s revolutionary post-PC device was designed to accommodate a wide range users, not everyone has been using the company’s iOS platform since its debut alongside the release of the original iPhone. Though many elements of iOS are intuitive, the platform has many features which…

One of the ways you can increase the performance of your computer is to upgrade the RAM. How much and what type, however, are dependent on the system. You need to make sure that the RAM you buy is compatible with your system, but sometimes the terminology can be confusing. How can you be certain…

Steve Jobs has said for some time that Apple will not support Blu-Ray, calling the licensing “a bag of hurt.” Despite how popular Blu-Ray has become since it trounced HD-DVD in the battle of the standards, Jobs claims that downloadable Internet content will eventually win out over physical media. Each format has its pros and…

A customer strolled into our South Burlington store the other day with a 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro, fully decked out with 8GB of RAM. Somehow, after a few hours of layout work in Quark XPress, the machine would begin to bog down and “beachball” as if it were a Bondi blue iMac G3 with dial-up…

Happy Tuesday, I swung by our Waitsfield, VT headquarters this morning to walk Owen and finish up this newsletter before heading to Burlington. Yesterday’s flood helped clear the field behind our warehouse that had been strewn with river ice since the last flood a few months ago. This flood followed two warm days and a…