Sep 11 2023
If you had more than one Mac or a laptop that was always moving around, an Apple Time Capsule was the best backup solution. End of story. At least it would have been if Apple hadn’t discontinued this marvellous product back in 2018. This stunningly stupid move left us in the hands of network hard …
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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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/high-sierra-is-getting-the-chop/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/the-planned-obsolesce-myth/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.macservicesact.com.au/the-new-imac-buy-it-but-with-caution/
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