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What’s next for MacBook Pro? SSD Alongside HDD.
The iMac has a nifty new feature (well, for iMac, anyways). It has both a 2.5-inch drive bay and a 3.5-inch drive bay. Now yes, you can use that 2.5-inch drive bay to house that old hard drive from...
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MacBook Bottom Case Replacement Program
I bought my MacBook in December 2010, the bottom case on it has failed twice. Sure enough, Apple has opened up a replacement program for the bottom case. Apple doesn’t go into great detail as to what...
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Apple Quietly Starts Fixing Unibody MacBook Cracks
Apple has begun to cover both in-warranty and out-of-warranty repairs on hairline cracks that have surfaced in unibody versions of the discontinued MacBook line. The change now means Apple has...
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Apple Unibody MacBook Case Crack Warranty Extension — Expanded?
In my last article, I noted that Apple was providing undocumented case crack warranty extension for the 13-inch Unibody (Late 2009 & Late 2010) MacBook models. Specifically, Apple replaced the...
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Unboxing: Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter Cable
Went to an Apple Retail Store, and bought the cable that I have waited a very long time for. After over a year with a Thunderbolt-enabled MacBook Air, and the only FireWire options being 1) Target Disk...
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Windows 8.1 Preview on a Late 2009 MacBook
It’s not as crazy as it sounds at first. I have one of these plastic unibody Late 2009 MacBooks. Like many, I’m stuck with it because the plastic cracked like crazy… something that the whole unibody...
View ArticleSoftware Fixing Hardware: A Case Study in the 13-inch MacBook Pro
I take apart the good, bad, and ugly of when you use software to heal hardware. I just had to retire a 50 month old 13-inch MacBook Pro. Still running Snow Leopard due to app incompatibilities, the SMC...
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Apple’s Battery Technology – A Potential Systemic Fault, Glued In
Back in 2008, Apple announced unibody MacBook models. In doing so, they ushered in what they described as revolutionary battery technology. Looking back, was it? Or was it mostly marketing? How Unibody...
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Retina MacBooks Have a Day of Reckoning Regarding Batteries, Vintage, and...
Next year, Apple will begin adding 2012-era MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models to its Vintage and Obsolete list. The first wave will happen in June, 2017. For those unaware, after five years of being...
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Mildly Interesting: New Late 2013 MacBook Pro Top Case Has Plastics Matching...
I locked in the final late 2013 MacBook Pro battery replacement (right before the deadline), and noticed the top case keyboard is slightly different. The spring mechanisms are the same, but the plastic...
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