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Building a cheap external SSD: USB 3 or Thunderbolt? 2 – USB 3

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Could a £15 case really let my bargain 750 GB SSD perform at its best?

July 21, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Building a cheap external SSD: USB 3 or Thunderbolt? 1 – Thunderbolt

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A sale offer brought me a 750 GB SSD for only £110. But should I mount it in a Thunderbolt or USB 3 case?

July 20, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Fusion Drives: the best thing to happen to El Capitan

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Why El Capitan needs an SSD or Fusion Drive, and all about their care and maintenance.

December 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Testing a Mac Pro

How can my colleague test a new Mac Pro properly, to see whether it will solve his performance problems?

September 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Memory in the yellow, issues in the logs

Memory use is always in the ‘yellow’, and my Mac grinds to a halt. Why?

September 20, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Strip for speed?

How can I strip OS X down to improve iMovie’s performance?

July 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Hot Stuff

If you ever used a PowerBook G4 on naked flesh, you will already have experienced the thermal limit to processor speed.

July 2, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Optimising additional memory

I installed additional memory in my iMac. Should I have arranged the modules differently to obtain maximum benefit?

June 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Why faster is seldom quicker

Designing algorithms which can benefit from multiple cores and GPUs is not only non-trivial, it remains desperately difficult for humans.

June 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Pointless purges

Although my Mac has 6 GB of memory, I have had to use the purge command with depressing frequency since OS X 10.6, before quitting anything, particularly Safari.

May 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

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