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Have an 840 Pro 256 GB with a lot of data on it that I would hate to lose. The drive failed randomly on me Wednesday, and guess who doesn't have backups? Yeap, I am competing for dumbfuck of the year award. The most frustrating thing to me is that this isn't the first time I've been bitten by...

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At the tender old age of 28, I have come to the realization that I have too much crap. Crap that's perfectly good, I just don't use it and for whatever reason I bought it, maybe used it a bit, then just never bothered to get rid of it. Now is the time to get rid of it. I need to move to a new...

The biggest thing I notice about my SSD is not particularly how fast boot up or shutdown is, but rather, how snappy the system is. programs open almost immediately after the click and there's no blue circling/beach balling while it hunts around to load up its data. Anything on my computer...

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind. I don't particularly need three fast machines, just one, though I was debating on whether to spend the money fixing the Mac or giving my PC a much needed overhaul (what the hell am I doing cramming a 7970 in there when I have an ancient X6 and don't have a big...

A few of the things I'll mention here have already been said many times over, but sometimes that is also helpful. To answer your questions: 1. As the hardware and software are either designed or carefully selected & supported by the same company, there tends to be fewer random oddities...

So, I have a 2010 27" I bought for $1504.14 from the refurb store in late 2011. I specifically picked this one because it's the last one that came with DisplayPort input. I went ahead and got the $179.14 Applecare warranty too, since I tend to have a good experience with it. (they swapped the...

Teal, like my 1994 Thunderbird. :)

Yes, it's 204 pin SO-DIMM, unbuffered, non-parity. Pretty standard stuff. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4255 Apple says you can do up to 4gb per stick, but secretly, the iMac will take all the way up to 8gb per stick. You don't need to worry about latency and timing, really. The difference...

You can have my miniDP target display mode when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers. Not getting any iMac beyond the 2010 model til they bring that back. :p

No, the connectors are different. Plus, in the case of the 4th gen LCD, the 2nd gen's GPU is insufficient to support the resolution. You would need to buy an identical part What's going wrong with it? I've managed to replace the LCD and digitizer in a 2nd gen touch. It isn't easy to do...

I went balls out and crammed all 32 gb in mine. 4x8gb DDR3 SO-DIMMs was on sale for less than $150 a while back, couldn't resist the temptation. I no longer have to worry about multitasking. The only time I beachball is when the application itself quits responding (looking at you, Firefox), not...

You can never tell for sure with those cheap knockoff cables. Some are OK, some are not. The iPad charger drives the D+/D- lines to a specific value. If those cables only pass USB 5v and ground, or the resistance on the data lines is off by enough, then the iPad will not see the specific...

Unfortunately, no, those adapters are for mDP output (on the computer) to DVI input (on the monitor). The miniDP to DVI adapters work in that direction because the video card detects and changes its output signals to DVI. To get from DVI output to miniDP input, you would need an active converter...

The GTX 670 will work fine with target display mode on the iMac 2010 (make sure you got the right cable, DP to miniDP - if I'm not mistaken, the DP ports on the GTX 670 are full-size not mini). The problems referred to in this thread with the 5000 series Radeons is when that is the card in the...

Figured I'd post an update for anyone who was following the thrilling story, or anyone who might happen to Google upon it some day looking for how to recover data from a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 that does not spin up. I tried the PCB from the drive with the different firmware. No dice. My PC...

You're right. Not much else to lose besides the ..oh wait. :p

Yeah, http://www.donordrives.com/seagate-120gb-st3120213as-pn-9bd11c-620-fw-3-ahh-sata-hard-drive.html is essentially the drive that I bought. I got it used on eBay for $22 because it matched all the numbers and the 100372435 sticker from the drive I killed. I am hoping that this means I can...

In the process of helping somebody with their computer, I have shorted out or otherwise toasted the controller board of their hard drive, a 120 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9. And yep, I didn't manage to get their data off of it before that happened. I was just about to start the data transfer...

Oh boy. I have been having a ball trying to find enough hard drive space to back this one up to. I finally found a 120 gig that's sitting around doing nothing but gathering dust, so I am clearing it out and going to do a full drive image backup of her 120 gig before I wipe it. Just in case I...

So, I volunteered to help someone from church by breathing some new life into their computer. They said I could wipe it and put a fresh install on there, but from what I'm looking at after I got it home and hooked it up, I don't think there's much that a fresh install can do for it. It's not in...

Yeah, I'm setting up the slipstream now after having extracted the Intel storage drivers from the Lenovo setup package. Trying to figure out whether I can get away with selecting all of the AHCI controller drivers for inclusion in text mode setup, or if I must select only one (in which case, I...

I've got a buddy who just ordered an SSD for his T500. He bought an XP disk some time ago to install fresh, because he doesn't just want to clone the drive, and he didn't get the install disk from Lenovo, and there seems to be no way to grab the XP install files from the current hard drive's...

The iPhone 5 can't operate the radio at both CDMA and LTE frequencies simultaneously. And calls are made over the CDMA network. So, no simultaneous voice and data on Verizon or Sprint. http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/apple-confirms-iphone-5-wont-do-simultaneous-voice-and-lte-data-on-cdma/

I am totally interested. I really wish they'd quit making the damn things thinner and thinner and thinner. Not only because it's harder to type on (in my experience, anyway), but they can't stick a big enough battery in there, so you're lucky to get 4 hours of useful life out of it. If they'd...

^-- This x 10 It is a common misconception that deaf people can just take texting for granted like others do. Written word is more like a second language to someone who thinks in ASL. Ever tried to communicate in a language you didn't learn natively? I try to communicate in ASL and it's the...

I think it's more that they take offense to being forced to pay for an unlimited voice plan (specifically, the Mobile Share plan) in order to get it, rather than that they want it for free. The argument is not that AT&T's network can or cannot take it, or that deaf users should be given stuff...

I'm going to ask a stupid question...but did you try the bar's lost & found?

I've got lots of devices paired to my iPhone with the same name. The only problem is my own confusion when I don't remember which one I'm connecting to :D luckily, the device usually connects to my iPhone, and I don't have to fart with it. Bluetooth is such a pain in the ass, though.

You shouldn't have to tap it every time you want to initiate the connection. You need only to pair it the one time. Tap it, confirm the pair on the iPhone, then that should be all you need. If it's not connecting automatically each time, you might try unpairing (tap the blue arrow, "Forget...

I use iTeleport to take control of my Mac at home from my iPhone or iPad anywhere. It's basically a brain dead simple VNC client that uses the Mac's built-in screen sharing, along with your Google account for authentication, to make sure you can always get to it from the internet. It's pretty...

Diet Pepsi FTW. I buy Apple... Because they pay so much attention to detail that it appeals to the perfectionist in me. It's how I think about the software that I write, so there's a certain amount of harmony there. They aren't perfect, by a long shot, but there's little things here and...

Yes, shouldn't even need to do cmd+F2, the iMac will switch automatically when it sees signal coming to the miniDP port on the back.

One thing to also check is that you have the miniDP cable as the only monitor connection coming out of the video card. If there is another monitor already connected, then it may be using it as the primary monitor, in which case you'd need to change the monitor configuration in Windows after it...

For iPhone/iPad/iPod/most everything Apple, I frequent everythingicafe. They might have a better answer for this specific question. As far as I know, it's down to the lack of implementation of a scheduled app launch. The OS just doesn't do it. Launch Center Pro might, but I don't know enough...

Glad to be of assistance! The way I understand it, DisplayPort Input is a firmware thing and not an OS thing, as Apple released an SMC firmware update long ago to address issues with DisplayPort input compatibility (unrelated to the 5700/5800 issue). So, it should have survived the transition...

Sorry, that was a little jab at Apple. I consider Lion 10.7 to be a downgrade from Snow Leopard 10.6 (mostly because they totally screwed up Spaces+Expose+Dashboard). Mountain Lion, although the latest version of Mac OS X, has not fixed the deficiencies that I found in Lion. The iMac 2010 is...

I can say that my 7970 works, and I have a very similar iMac to yours (mine has 32GB of RAM, and I have not downgraded to Mountain Lion). I haven't seen any posts with someone using a 7870 and confirming it to work on the 2010 iMac, but since it's so similar to the 7970, it's very likely that...