Linkpost | 5.8.2013
• Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ public preview due end of June – And there are more hints that the Start button (though not the Start menu) will make a return in this update, which will come...
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• Open source will let your fridge send messages to your TV and phone – The AllSeen Alliance has been created to enable objects connected in “the Internet of things” to talk to each other. • Security...
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Buying a new notebook, and thinking different
I last bought a new notebook computer in 2009. It was a 13-inch MacBook Pro, and it replaced a black MacBook I’d picked up in 2007 that was my first Macintosh. That 2009 MacBook Pro has served me...
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Upgrade time: I’m adding an SSD to my 2012 Mac Mini
It has been a while since I last attempted major surgery on a computer I own. Almost 2 1/2 years ago, I cracked open a mid-2007 iMac to replace a dead hard drive. I replaced the iMac last year with a...
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Update: Giving the new SSD a test drive on the Mac Mini
As I wrote last week, I’m going to upgrade my 2012 Mac Mini with a Solid State Drive with a goal of speeding it up and giving it some new life. I’d ordered a 500-gigabyte Samsung 850 EVO SSD and...
View ArticleHere’s your best upgrade for an older computer
Conventional wisdom holds that the best upgrade for your money is to install more memory. And certainly, if you’re poking along with a wildly inadequate amount of RAM, that may still be true. But I...
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