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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Feb 15 2021
Support for Apple’s M1 chip is certainly ramping up. While most applications will happily work in emulation, Adobe Photoshop and the gang is on track to be M1 native by early this year. Also, Parallels has announced that a version of their Windows emulator will be moving to AMD (rather than Intel) so we can …
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Feb 15 2021
So, you are reading this, so that means you have an internet connection. And that is a good thing! God knows, you are paying enough for it. And when I say “it,” I am, of course, talking about the mysterious service that you bought from a voice in South Africa that often does anything but …
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