Achievement unlocked
October 17th, 2014 kennyrAchievement unlocked….
Stuff that I like, stuff I hate and all that is in between….
SSD are good…..
October 12th, 2014The 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.
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
October 5th, 2014 kennyrOriginally shared by +TWiT
For the full episode, go to http://twit.tv/mbw/422
On the latest episode of MacBreak Weekly…..
October 4th, 2014 kennyrReshared post from +TWiT
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.
For the full episode, go to http://twit.tv/mbw/422
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