The No Spin Zone: SSD Awesomeness
What is SSD you might be asking yourself? Or maybe you know exactly what it is but think its either too expensive or the benefits are too small to warrant an upgrade. Either way, I hope to show you why SSD is awesome and why it might be a worth while upgrade for you and your computer. SSD stands for Sold State Disk. Essentially its a disk made from RAM chips. A flash drive is an example of a...
Read MoreCloud Computing: A Warning.
Over the last week there have been a series of outages in the cloud computing community resulting in the loss of thousands of end users personal data. If you are unlucky enough to be the owner of aT-Mobile branded Side-Kick then you likely know the story. This article from roughly drafted highlights the key points of the failure and how it could have easily been prevented. I guess you may be...
Read MoreTime For a New Apple Mouse?
Apple has been on the leading edge of industrial design for quite some time. They brought us the all in one computer with the iMac, the market changing iPod, but maybe most importantly, they brought the mouse to mainstream computer users. Through the years apple continued to innovate introducing the usb “hockey puck” mouse and later the pro optical mouse. Their latest mouse has been...
Read MoreiPods! iPods! iPods!
You may or may not be aware that Apple held a press event this morning. The event was centered around the release of four new iPods. Apple updated all of it’s iPod line adding additional storage and new features to each of the four lines. More information can be found on Apple.com. The update of these iPods caused quite a stir and later I will tell you why i think this may have been one of...
Read MoreSnow Leopard: Get Yours August 28th!
Well folks its finally here: Snow Leopard. The Apple store has come back online bearing an order page for OS X version 10.6 in Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Pro… oh wait, it’s just $29, as an upgrade from 10.5. Here you can get the scoop on the nitty gritty, but come August 28th, you can be sure this is one BestMacs employee who will be taking the plunge. Having used the Snow...
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