The ten hardest screws (Mac mini upgrades)

Loyd upgrades the RAM and hard drive in his early 2009 Mac mini.

The Apple wireless keyboard

I bought the Apple wireless Keyboard to go with my Mac mini. It’s Bluetooth and much smaller than the previous generation keyboards. Although it doesn’t have contoured keys as on a traditional keyboard, and they keys feel slightly wider apart than standard, it types surprisingly well and is extremely portable. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t make the [...]

New, cleaner desk

More clutter-free, more work to be done. I love my MX1000 laser mouse, but it needs new feet, and gives OS X fits sometimes. Various generations of the Western Digital MyBook series. I’ve found that FireWire drives are harder to come by these days, the two drives on the right are USB-only.

Some hard drives sneak peak

I’m working on a fun post on the various hard drive’s I’ve owned through the years. Here is a sneak peak.

The right way to fix broken boot.ini links

Instead of guessing like I did, fix broken boot.ini partition links the right way!

BootCampin’ the night away

With my latest hard drive swap, I wanted to bring BootCamp back into my life. Previously I created a custom XP install disc with USB support, which I used to boot Windows from an external USB hard drive. (See the Resources section at the end of this article.) Tech specs: BootCamp partition was the smallest [...]

Swapping the MBP hard drive (again)

Loyd upgrades his MacBook Pro hard drive again.