Jun 14 2023
Nothing is ever as it seems. You’d be forgiven for thinking that a cable is a cable. It is a long string of plastic with plugs on either end that charges or connects your device to the computer and it transfers data. It’s very straight forward right? Well, as it turns out, no! Service stations, …
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Aug 13 2021
It wasn’t that long ago that a computer was considered ‘past it’ by its 5th birthday. I myself often used to say that computers age like dogs but in light of recent trends I think perhaps I ought to amend this to computers age like small dogs. It’s not uncommon for us to upgrade a …
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Jun 10 2021
“Don’t you hate Apple’s planned obsolescence?!” This is something I hear a lot, often after I have just delivered the bad news about someone’s Mac… something like they need an upgrade or this hardware is too old to install the latest and greatest OS. It is an understandable feeling when faced with the cost of …
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Jun 03 2021
Like anything I guess… if you work in an industry long enough you see a trend, seemingly long forgotten and considered a bit daggy, come around again. In 1996 the Mac was reborn as the “iMac” and it came in different colours and had transparent cases. The keyboard was colour coded, the mouse was colour …
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Feb 15 2021
If you have a Macbook Pro 2016 or 2017 you’d be forgiven for thinking that its out of warranty. Any issues and the repair, likely expensive, falls to you. Well for the most part, sadly, you are right… but not if you have the aforementioned with a battery issue. Batteries are expensive so that is …
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