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MacHack.it/news displays a short and concise selection of Macintosh-related technical news from multiple sources:

NO rumors,
NO market shares,
NO iPod skins.

Just the facts and the hacks.
Sounds interesting to you too, or is it me ??

Some days ago a colleague at work gifted me with a 250GB’s PATA hard-disk, since the enclosure that was retaining it had some serious issue. While I was investigating on the causes he got a new disk+enclosure and later on I found that was an electronic problem with the USB 2.0 controller.
BTW he got a [...]

If you are a nomad and heavy Apple’s MacBook user nomade del MacBook like me I suggest you to watch out for the power cord handling and maintenance.
You could find yourself in a situation like mine, after only 18 months from buying it, which is perfectly showed on the image down here:

Luckily, thanks to Arturo, [...]

At work, for some months now, we are using a NAS system produced by Intel, specifically the model Storage System 4000-e object of this post/review.
Our specific device is equipped by four SATA hard disk, each of 750GB, for a global, theoretical capacity of 3 TeraBytes of data.
The remaining tech specs are the same shown [...]

Since I cannot post the image as a comment in the appropriate post I’m “forced” to publish a new one to show the replacement drive I took in an Apple store in my city.

The drive was an Apple pre-configured one, with a basic copy of OS X installed in and with a “default” MacBook user [...]

Yesterday I’ve lost my Apple MacBook’s 60GB original hard drive. It simply stopped working.

Luckily I just had my (full disk) backup (via CarbonCopyCloner) just sunday night !
(a more detailed post will follow in the next few hours)

Since the purchase of my MacBook I had got an Apple Mighty Mouse too as the laptop’s companion. Also I got the cabled one, since the wireless unit was released twenty days after (how terribly kind by Apple to not announce it anywhere in any form !!)
As everybody knows How to clean your Mighty [...]

The `linux-laptop` mailing list is dedicated to all topics regarding Linux on laptops and notebooks. Your postings are welcome, but please make sure you have checked at least the Linux-Mobile-Guide, the Infrared-HOWTO, the PCMCIA-HOWTO or another appropriate HOWTO from the The Linux Documentation Project - TLDP before asking a question.
In this way people [...]

Do you know / Remember the TuxMobil website ??
By the years it has grown up and become THE site/portal you go to get information on how to install FREE operating systems (and Linux in particular) on your laptop (expecially if it’s the model released this morning) or mobile devices in general (PDA and such). In [...]

I would like to thank John for his kind words and expecially for his addictions to my Acer TM803LMi RAM upgrade procedure.