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Diagnosing a Mac which can’t complete booting

What to do when your Mac won’t boot into the Desktop and Finder – another summary diagram for diagnosis and suggested solutions.

September 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

What to do when your Magic Trackpad 2 fails

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Although they’re normally very reliable, they do sometimes go wrong. Here’s how to get your trackpad working properly again.

October 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

Monitoring SSD wear and ageing

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Two free tools to check how long your SSD, including those in Fusion Drives, is likely to last.

June 7, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

How long will the SSD (in my Fusion Drive) last?

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How long will the SSD in your Mac last before it fails? Some seem to be going to an early grave. Is yours?

June 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Drive safely: testing hard drives the hard way

Few users can report the results of testing over 61,000 hard drives for three months. Backblaze just has.

May 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

My network connection is not unplugged: a KEXT, a MAC, and an almost dead Mac

Sunday morning nightmare: how a missing component of OS X brought my iMac to its knees.

February 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

From a broken Promise to an even bigger Promise

A second hard drive failure in my Promise Pegasus RAID system forces some choices.

February 10, 2016 Macs, Technology

BT and the largest UK Internet failure?

With “hundreds of thousands” of customers left without Internet connections for several hours, BT’s massive outage is too unimportant for its own News site.

February 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Lead-free graphics cards: a problem?

How a well-intended ban to limit lead pollution could end up making other toxicity worse.

December 20, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: That hard disk is no more

The old drive in my Mac Pro has a S.M.A.R.T. status of ‘failed’. Should I move it to a different drive slot?

November 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

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