SSD or hard disk? Western Digital, HGST or Seagate? Multiple smaller capacities, or one big disk?
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Shutdown cause codes, wake reasons, ACPI, and sleep states – diagnosing problems from hardware events.
A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.
How to interpret the code numbers written into your Mac’s log to indicate the reason for shutting down, restarting, or going to sleep.
Hard drives are still best value for higher capacity storage. Here are some tips for purchasing them, based on vast experience.
How can you tell whether your Mac supports Continuity, whether you bought an app from the App Store, and diagnose extension problems?
Tim Cook told us that Apple has been investing heavily in unreleased products and services. It is reaping rich rewards from its services already.
Summer is allegedly coming: the season when your Mac could see its harshest use. Does yours get too hot?
How much is the data stored on your Mac’s drives worth? DriveDx is a utility which could save you from that loss.
What to do when your Mac won’t start up, and is acting dead, or at least mortally wounded.
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