Entries Categorized as 'Hardware'

Airport connection dropping off - how to fix it

Date May 18, 2008

Boy, can it be frustrating when your wireless network starts dropping every few minutes!
First it works fine, then the traffic stops even though the Airport indicator shows the full signal. When I click on it, the status shows as “Airport: Scanning” then after a few seconds it’s “On” and the traffic goes fine. Minute later [...]

iMac - 10 years ago

Date May 7, 2008

“… and iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the internet with the simplicity of Macintosh!” - these are the words that Steve Jobs introduced the all new Apple computer with back in 1998 - the iMac.
Below is the video of this historic event - enjoy.

Apple sued over 20″ iMac displays

Date April 3, 2008

An iMac owner sued Apple on Monday claiming the 20-inch iMac desktop computers can’t display the “millions of colors” Apple promises in promotional materials.
The Cupertino-based company touts that ability on its website and other marketing material even though it knows iMac monitors can display only 262,144 true colours, according to the lawsuit, filed in US [...]

New MacBook Pro problems - speaker buzz noise

Date March 9, 2008

Quite a few forum users world wide are reporting problems with the new MacBook Pro with Penryn processors (February 2008 model).
The problem is described as the speaker buzz noise that is coming from the right side of the computer. While it may sound as a faulty speaker, it is apparently the right fan that is [...]

New MacBook Pro - keyboard changes

Date February 28, 2008

We were all expecting hoping that Apple was going to release a redesigned MacBook Pro this month, however the February update is barely worth mentioning. Apart from the faster processor, more video memory in base model and larger hard drive (yay!), the only visible difference is the keyboard.
No, it’s not the MacBook Air / MacBook [...]

All wireless iMac

Date September 6, 2007

I was watching the Australian TV series Home and away and noticed something Apple has been hiding from us all the time. An all wireless iMac, employing the latest wireless power transfer technology.

Oh good old TV, they never stop amusing me.