Are you Mac or PC? What does that say about your personality?
Let’s look at a little history to see how we got here with this question. The Apple II was the first personal computer, released in 1977 after Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company – followed by the IBM PC in 1981, running Microsoft MS-DOS.
Always one step ahead, Apple under Steve Jobs released the Macintosh in 1984 – its windows interface was a […]
One way that laptops are getting thinner and lighter is by replacing the hard disk drive with a solid-state drive (SSD). An SSD has no mechanical moving parts so it’s faster, lighter, and more robust. Sounds ideal for a portable device, right?
Yes and no. SSDs are ideal functionally but they cost more per byte than hard drives. To keep the overall cost of the laptop down, you get less storage space. (Here’s a detailed article […]
We’ve got five computers in our household. We’re almost like a small business – we need regular maintenance and backup. Rather than set up a separate backup device for each computer, I elected to go with a network-attached storage (NAS) device.
You connect the NAS device to your internet router. Your computer sees it as a network device that it can use for backup.
It’s a great way to add storage for backup and also for shared […]
We may think that our computers come with massive amount of storage space.
If you do have a very recent desktop computer, then it may be a very long time before you have to start paying attention to your storage space, but if you have an older desktop computer or if you have a laptop computer, particularly something ultra-portable like a Macintosh Air, then it is time to take a look.
As your storage space fills up, […]
