The spinning drive in my mid-2010 MacBookPro died a while ago. I replaced the built in drive with a 300G SSD and all was good for about a month, then I ran out of space. Going up to the next size SSD was very expensive, so I bought this adapter thing which allow you replace the DVD drive with another hard drive. This worked pretty well, I had a spare 500G drive laying around. Took a little hoop jumping to move my home directory to the second drive, but it wasn’t to difficult.
Well that second drive (which was a spinning drive) started dying. Luckily the price of bigger SSD’s has come way down and I never really ended up using more than about half the 500G. I ordered a replacement drive yesterday, paid the extra $7 to have it delivered the next day and started the cloning process before going to bed last night. I just finished installing it, other then having to re-sync my Google Drive folder, everything just worked.
I have noticed two things really quick. The laptop doesn’t make any noise now, because the fan doesn’t seem to come on. And things are even faster than before, so having the system on a SSD is good. Having your home directory on one is even better.
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On the latest episode of MacBreak Weekly, Andy Ihnatko’s pick of the week is the LapWorks Amigo Folding Keyboard, which Andy finds especially useful with Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus.
I bought these back in the late 90's at the company store. I remember it specifically, because the sound card in my desktop stopped working in the latest build of Windows 5 (You probably know it as W2K). Rather then finding a new sound card, I decided to get a pair of USB speakers instead. Since then, I've lugged these around from one place to the next. They were really a nice set of speakers for the $80 I paid for them.
My Microsoft DSS-80 USB speakers finally died. I bought these back in the late 90's at the company store. I remember it specifically, because the sound card in my desktop stopped working in the latest build of Windows 5 (You probably know it as W2K). Rather then finding a new sound card, I decided to get a pair of USB speakers instead. Since then, I've lugged these around from one place to the next. They were really a nice set of speakers for the $80 I paid for them.
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Decided to see if my iPad mini and BT keyboard would be good enough. I am able to login to linux boxes and do stuff, plus write up a report with Google docs.
Color me impressed….
My traveling setup this weekend. Decided to see if my iPad mini and BT keyboard would be good enough. I am able to login to linux boxes and do stuff, plus write up a report with Google docs.
