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How Apple’s Solid State Hard Drives Work

August 27, 2018 by Alexander Fox 1 Comment

All Apple laptops have contained SSD storage since 2014, providing ultra-fast storage communication to the onboard SSD. As common as these drives are, true understanding of their technological underpinnings is more rare. We can examine the technology to see how SSDs work and what makes Apple’s SSD drives special. What is NAND memory? Computer processors […]

Filed Under: Mac Tagged With: Flash Storage, Macbook Pro, SSD

Base plop SSD Desk Storage – for Those Who Need More

June 10, 2015 by Noemi Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, we featured a beautiful SSD enclosure called plops. The concept is simple, with only a mere push-and-pull action to insert an SSD to expand your storage. The makers of plops have once again put their creative energies into gear and are promoting a new product on Indiegogo. It is just like plops, but […]

Filed Under: Accessories Tagged With: Indiegogo, SSD, Storage

The plops SSD Enclosure Is Simple and Beautiful

March 13, 2015 by Noemi Leave a Comment

It may have a silly ring to it, but the plops may very well change your life – if you use SSDs regularly. the plops is an SSD enclosure that makes things ultra simple. Instead of having to exert some effort inserting and removing SSDs into different enclosures, the plops SSD enclosure allows you to […]

Filed Under: Accessories Tagged With: External hard drive, Indiegogo, SSD

How to Reclaim Hard Drive Space from iTunes

March 25, 2014 by Brian Meyer 4 Comments

If you use your Mac to backup your iOS devices you probably have a few gig worth of backups you really don’t need. While those of us with huge hard drives may not care, Mac users that have SSDs and MacBook Airs would probably really like to get that space back. Worse yet, if you’re […]

Filed Under: iTunes Tagged With: harddrive, How To, iTunes, SSD, Storage

OS X Lion Adds Better SSD Support

February 26, 2011 by Tanner Godarzi Leave a Comment

The latest developer preview of Mac OS X Lion introduces TRIM support for Solid State Drives which will improve long term performance. Apple is starting to add SSDs to the MacBook Pro line and eventually its desktop Macs to improve battery life and shorten boot up times. However, Snow Leopard can’t optimally handle the drives. […]

Filed Under: Mac, News, OS X Tagged With: Flash, os x lion, solid state drive, SSD, trim

New MacBook Air Gets Gutted

October 22, 2010 by Kevin Whipps 1 Comment

I’m a car guy, and I love putting things together and taking them apart. That’s why I love the crew at iFixit. Every time a new Mac model comes out, they splay it out on the table and do an autopsy so that we all can see the goodies inside. In the case of the […]

Filed Under: Macbook Air Tagged With: Battery, Fan, iFixit, Macbook, Macbook Air, RAM, Speakers, SSD, Tear downs

The MacBook Air: Lust & Logic

October 21, 2010 by Kevin Whipps Leave a Comment

I’ve talked before about my lust for small computers, particularly the 12-inch PowerBook. That’s why yesterday’s news about the new MacBook Air models was a welcome relief for me. But at the same time, a bit disappointing as well. The specs were just as the rumors pointed out, and that’s a good thing. The SSD […]

Filed Under: Macbook Air Tagged With: Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, PowerBook, SSD

Rumor: New MacBook Air Soon

October 7, 2010 by Kevin Whipps Leave a Comment

Oh, the MacBook Air. It’s thin and … well there’s not much else to say really. It doesn’t have an optical drive, only comes with 2GB of RAM that isn’t an upgradable option via Apple, and it’s $300 more than the base model 13-inch MacBook Pro which is faster and has more hard drive space. In other […]

Filed Under: Macbook Air Tagged With: Macbook, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, rumor, SSD

The SSD Dillemma

September 20, 2010 by Kevin Whipps 12 Comments

I’ve got a bad case of “Ineedanewcomputeritis,” and it’s driving me nuts. A few months back, I upgraded the internal hard drive on my 15-inch MBP with a 500GB, 7200 RPM model, and I was pretty happy. But as things tend to go, as time went on, my hard drive got fuller and fuller until […]

Filed Under: Macbook Pro Tagged With: Hard drive, Intel, Macbook, Macbook Pro, OWC, SSD

OWC SSD Touted as Cheapest SSD Out There

August 23, 2010 by Kevin Whipps Leave a Comment

The world of Mac solid state drives (SSD) is a bit controversial. I don’t have all the answers on this one, but what it comes down to is TRIM. From Anandtech: We run into these problems primarily because the drive doesn’t know when a file is deleted, only when one is overwritten. Thus we lose […]

Filed Under: Mac Pro Tagged With: Hard drive, Mac Pro, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Performance, SSD

New Mac Pros Mean the Old Ones are Cheap

August 13, 2010 by Kevin Whipps 1 Comment

Oh, the Mac Pro. Device of people who really need to crank out resource-intensive projects. It’s what some video editors prefer for editing their movies, and what some designers love for working on magazines and other work. It’s also the price of a used car, and with the latest update, a grand more expensive than […]

Filed Under: Mac Pro Tagged With: Intel, Mac Pro, SSD

Mac Pro Updated – Finally

July 27, 2010 by Kevin Whipps Leave a Comment

I was complaining just a few weeks ago about the lack of updates for the Mac Pro. Turns out, I just had to wait a little bit. Now, I could ramble on about how quick these things are, but let me just sample the traditional Apple speak for this one: he new quad-core Mac Pro, […]

Filed Under: Mac Pro Tagged With: Intel, Mac Pro, RAID, SSD

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