Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

A short guide to blaspheming: running Boot Camp after replacing a MacBook’s hard drive

First, the background: a month or two ago, my MacBook’s hard drive had a minor liquid trauma and had to be replaced. I sent it to Apple to see if they’d replace it, but - as expected - it was accidental damage, not their fault, and so I had to pay $700 to replace the bottom casing, SATA cable, and hard drive (not an option right then, or now), or else have it sent back to me. I opted for the latter, and my MacBook returned to me… working?! Turns out someone in the know (as in, who can take it apart without completely FUBARing the laptop) needed to let it air out, apparently. I ran my MacBook for the next week straight… no difficulties. It seemed perfectly fine.

However, I was still a little leery… and had been itching to give myself more free hard drive space anyhow. I bought my laptop directly from a retail Apple Store, so I had no opportunity to go above and beyond the stock 80 GB hard drive that comes on the MacBook (well, the non-black ones, anyway). So, some research and a few purchases later, I followed these instructions (which have one small caveat, which I will mention after the jump) and replaced my hard drive with little to no difficulty (other than having to go out to Home Depot to buy a Torx T9 screwdriver), ending up with 150 GB internal hard drive and an 80 GB hard drive that could theoretically be used for backup.

The difficulty, however, arose when I tried to use Boot Camp to install a Windows partition. Read the rest of this entry »

July 30th, 2007 · Tags Apple, Computers, Mac, Windows | Comments Off

For once, I’m glad I can’t read Japanese

And you should be too.

What the

(photo tipoff by jtzapp)

January 27th, 2007 · Tags Apple, Mac, Microsoft, WTF?, Windows, lol | Comments Off

You know you’ve made it when…

… you can call a lawsuit by an opposing company ’silly.’ In a press release.

Apple and Cisco are continuing to square off over the iPhone trademark, following the lawsuit filed by Cisco over willful trademark infringement. Apple today called the lawsuit “silly,” while Cisco said it was willing to share iPhone with Apple.

Now if only Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony would band together to call a spade a spade.

(via MacNN)

January 11th, 2007 · Tags Apple, Law, Video Games, lol | Comments Off

Wherein Steve Jobs prank calls a Starbucks

10:28 am hangs up
10:27 am oh sorry - wrong number
10:27 am orders 4000 latte’s to go
         crowd laughs
10:27 am presses a button and calls starbucks
10:27 am finds a nearby starbucks
10:27 am finds moscone west

(from MacRumors’ live coverage of the MWSF keynote)

January 9th, 2007 · Tags Apple, lol | 1 Comment »