Is it really worth upgrading from a 5400rpm drive to a 7200rpm one? I didn’t know, so I thought I would put it to the test!
I ordered a Western Digital 20gb scorpio black drive from www.ebuyer.com for £50, to replace the stock Fujitsu 5400rpm drive that came with my Aluminium late 2008 MacBook.
I timed them both [...]
Transfer files using a direct Ethernet connection
With so many complaints about FireWire disappearing from the MacBooks, I wondered if large files could be copied using just an Ethernet cable. It was successful, and the transfer was rapid — less than one minute to transfer 1.8 GB.
I used an aluminum MacBook connected via Ethernet cable directly to [...]
I’m always on the look out for a case that will compliment my beautiful aluminium Macbook. I use a Marware bag that can carry all my bits and pieces plus the Macbook, and I have also used a silver Gimp case by Crumpler, but I always feel that neither really do the Macbook justice.
Enter the Proporta [...]
Apple quietly updates $999 white MacBook with unibody specs
by Thomas Ricker, posted Jan 21st 2009 at 5:27AM
Hmmm, what’s this? Did Apple just update its lowly, $999 white plastic polycarbonate MacBook to more closely align with its new unibody MacBooks? Why yes, yes it has… sometime in the last 3 days according to Google’s cache. [...]