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I'm just looking to know is there a consensus on the identification of MacBook Pro chassis(es) First gen chassis was stamped Second gen was Unibody with with the 2 panels on the underside Third Gen was the "non user replaceable battery Fourth Gen is Retina (and no optical) Is there an...

I don't know about ifixit vs amazon, but it would help to know, are you talking about the main HDD cable or the one for the optical drive? Also, does your MBP have the split-bottom (Flip the lever, panel pops out giving you access to the HDD and battery) Mine does have the split bottom...

Macsales.com has a USB 802.11ac adapter for 23.88 (I might call them and see if it will work with PPC. ICS is Internet Connection Sharing, you will need to enable that on your laptop to get it to "Bridge" the networks. Technically ICS is also a NAT router so devices on the "Main" network may...

IIRC, the first generation of MacBook Pros all had "Core Duo" CPUs Again IIRC, Core Duo chips have something, (I think it was called EMM64) that allowed them to use more than 4GB of RAM, (this was a technology Intel developed for servers, long before there was real need for a full 64-bit chip)...

I may be missing something here, (Never dealt with SLI/Crossfire, and generally have used ATI cards) but if there are nVidia cards that support 4 monitors simultaneously, (My ATI card HD5770 has 4 ports, but I think it can only drive 3 monitors, (I only ever use 1)) I think you should be able to...

Well, the obvious first step is to isolate the video card and the monitor. How is the computer connected to the monitor? VGA? DVI? Display Port? HDMI? If you have another port and/or cable you can use, that's something else you can try. If you have another monitor, try using that with your...

As stated by others, If your MBP has a mechanical HDD, any SATA SSD should work, and fit. As far as I have seen all SSD's use the same threaded holes in the same locations as standard 2.5 inch HDDs. I bought Crucial SSD's for my gaming computer, and MBP, As far as RAM, I can only speak to...

Re: Caps: yeah, that was what I was figuring, as it's about the only solid-state component that "ages" in any significant way. Re: VGA Haven't tried that yet, as it's still rock solid on my gaming computer with DVI. Mom and dad seem happy with their current monitor, (My former spare Dell...

So I have an old Sony TFT LCD monitor. It's 10 years old, (I still have the receipt with the manual.) My parents were using it with their computer, a Dell Optiplex 745, with a low-profile Radeon X1300/X1500 card (according to device manager) via DVI. They have been complaining of it briefly...

QFT (at least) 3 copies, (at least) 2 media types, (at least) 1 offsite location. THAT is a backup.

I'd say, if you have a copy of Spinrite6 run it on those drives. If Spinrite pops up it's "imminent failure flag set" message warning you to back up what data you can before attempting to run Spinrite, then absolutely, those drives are on their last legs and should be replaced immediately...

Having investigated the possibilities, it looks like we will be replacing the T1 service with an AT&T business Uverse service, at 15/1.5 Mbit.

My boss, who is not the most tech-savvy person in the world has asked me to look at his laptop, says it won't connect to WiFi at his house. (Dell Latitude D620 FWIW) It DOES connect at the office, to our 2.4GHZ 802.11g network. I can set my 802.11n Dual-Band (not sure if it's dual-radio)...

On a practical side, I'd also check the DHCP lease time. I used to work in PC Renewal (swapping out expiring lease computers with new ones) and even using /23 subnetting, sometimes the DHCP server would run out of available addresses, and we would have to do an "Ipconfig /release" on old...

Please forgive the wall of text, but I think I should start at the beginning: I'm volunteering for a non-profit that has a T1 WAN backhaul. Normally, I can ping "www.google.com" and get ping times Minimum=15ms, Maximum=150ms average=18-50ms, depending on how many other users are using the...