Press and hold the keys immediately after you turn on your Mac and hear the startup sound. Keep holding until the described behaviour occurs. Intel-based Mac Computers Hold during startup Description Shift (⇧) Start up in Safe Mode. Option (⌥) Start up to Startup Manager. C Start up from a bootable CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive […]
I managed to source 8gb of Crucial branded PC2-4200 ram for £15 from eBay. Installation was quick, with an easy removal of the fans near the ram slots with a gentle tug. After a few minutes the machine was booted up and very quick to use. Using Photoshop, Indesign and some games really was a […]
Fitting an old 1tb drive inside the Mac was relatively straight forward. However, I discovered that the Mac could not see the drive as it was limited to 150MB/sec speed drives and the Western Digital Green drive I used did not auto-fallback to this speed. The drive has that rate disabled by default, therefore it can’t be […]
I’ve always had a fond affection for the PowerPC based macs; maybe due to their design or maybe just because an eMac G4 was my first mac? 🙂 A recent impulse purchase on eBay has landed me with a PowerMac G5 2.0Ghz Dual Core (Late 2005) for a measly 40 of my British pounds! On […]
iStat Menus is a system monitoring utility by Bjango that has been around for quite some time now and is currently sat at version 5.2. It provides useful extras to your menu bar, enabling you to check CPU resources, temperatures, disk usage and activity, network activity and other internal sensors your Mac, with each menu providing access to even […]
Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple device ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, graphic cards, price, storage, expansion options and operating systems. Simply put…Mactracker is highly recommended! Rated Screenshots Downloads