Recent content by Firemane

Macintosh Performa 630cd I still want the money back I dropped on that 68LC040-based turd. Runner up: Quadra 605, also a 68LC040 steamer, that I had at work at the time.

This is what I did with my late '11 MBP. The stock 750GB spinner lives where the SuperDrive was, and the SSD went in the primary drive bay. At the time I bought mine, the OWC Mercury 6G 120GB was the same price as the Crucial linked above. Now that 256GB drives are at or near $200, it would...

Dunno why they wouldn't work, as long as all specs are met (particularly the ECC requirement). I too have a Mac Pro 3,1 with dual 2.8 quads, and I'm running HP-branded PC2-5300 (667MHz) 2R ECC FB-DIMMs with flat heat sinks and they work a treat despite being the wrong speed. Absolutely zero...

Correct. My .me account was converted and became my iCloud account. But my iTMS account that pre-dates either cannot be merged with the .me/iCloud one.

I have specifically and directly asked Apple, in person in a store and on the phone with support, if they can merge two IDs. I was told under no uncertain terms that it is not possible. Horseshit in my book, but that's the answer I got.

Oh, one other thing to note. When I replaced the HDD on my iMac G5 (2.1GHz iSight), I discovered an incompatibility issue with SATA-II 3gb/s and later drives. The drive must be capable of operating at 1.5gb/s, and also utilize SATA-I command compatibility when doing so. The SATA-II spec...

Well, a pre-Intel Mac will not boot via USB. However they will boot via FireWire. So get a combo USB/Firewire 400 enclosure for the TM disk and you should be able to boot from it (I say "should" because I have never tried to boot a Time Machine partition and can't speak from personal...

I haven't used Parallels in years, but have been using Fusion since its first commercial release. It does everything I need it to do, and does it well.

I believe QNAP devices would fulfill your requirements of mixed Time Machine target and general NAS file sharing. You don't mention a budget number for solution acquisition, but if you have a little money to spend it's probably worth looking at these. Sadly though, I can not give first-hand...

Apple's portfolio for the next couple years will continue to bear Steve's influence. Cook has been running the company long enough that I don't think there will be a significant change in the company's profile for a while yet. The question arises in earnest if Cook, Ive or other key Apple...

Another vote for the Momentus XT. I have one in my '07 Santa Rosa MBP, and installing the drive was like I had bought a whole new computer. Make sure to update its firmware to SD25 or later for best performance and reliability. It doesn't do much for VMs (it can't cache the VMDK volumes), but...

I can't believe this thread has gotten two pages in without anyone mentioning the Performa/Quadra 600-series. Sweet tap-dancing baby Jesus those things were awful. 68LC040 + IDE Disk = EPIC FAIL, even by the standards of the day. Worst. Machine. Evar. A close second was the 20th...

Apple tend to be one of the most generous companies I've ever dealt with when it comes to out-of-warranty repairs and replacements (especially when it comes to halo products like the iPad). Congrats on getting a replacement iPad! :D

To directly answer the original question, yes; the iPhone 4 (and 3G and 3GS) has a "real" GPS receiver in it. A-GPS is used for initial localization, and where no GPS signal is available, but then switches to satellite triangulation once the necessary signals have been acquired. Given that...

If you have a hypervisor that supports it, the EULA for Snow Leopard Server allows for virtualized installations. But non-server OS X virtualization is verboten. I wonder if the server requirement for OS X VMs will change when Lion is released...