Tag Archives: Mac mini

The New Mac mini Just Rocks

Posted on March 3, 2009 by LwEEs

Today (March 3, 2009), Apple released updates to all its desktops machines, some updates to the notebooks, and updates to time machine and airport extreme. In the much-anticipated updates there are still some that where disappointed but as far as I’m concerned, I’m super excited. The product that excites me the most is the new Mac mini, it’s still has the same form factor but the inside is another story. The new Mac mini gets rid of the old combo drive, in fact there’s no new Mac with a combo … Continue reading →

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I Am Upgrading My Mac mini

Posted on October 29, 2008 by LwEEs

With the rumors that the Mac mini may be eliminated from the lineup, I started thinking about selling mine. I looked at my options and decided to keep it to use it as a home theater. For now and until I get an iMac next January, I will do some upgrades to it. [amazonify]B0006HU49Y[/amazonify] I head up to OWC at www.macsales.com and looked up prices for Ram and a hard disk. I’m totally surprised at how low the prices of Ram have come. A set of 2, 1GB sticks of Ram … Continue reading →

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Mac Start Up Chime; Sound Profiles.

Posted on October 12, 2008 by LwEEs

I have a Mac mini and for a long time I wondered how to mute the start-up chime without affecting the system sound at all. I found several options around the web to include terminal hacks that didn’t worked, plug-ins that were not as effective, and hundreds of opinions from several forum members that were not as accurate as what I found on my own. Before telling you how easy my method is, let me explain to you what I came across while playing with the sound options on my … Continue reading →

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Uninstalling Growl

Posted on August 10, 2008 by LwEEs

Growl is a neat application that allows you to notifications of different events happening in your computer in real time. You can hook up several items within your system to notify you as they happen, application like Mail, Safari, can be easily hook up to Growl as well as several third party apps. I had Adium, Cyberduck, and Mozy hooked up, notifying me of anything happening on my computer like the start of a back up, new email messages, new chat messages, etc. The application is very unobtrusive and very … Continue reading →

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Wireless Connection Speeds

Posted on May 10, 2008 by LwEEs

I finally gave up my D-Link router and got an Apple AirPort Express, I waited two years since I originally plan this purchase but it was well worth the wait. I got the latest version of the Apple Airport Express with “N” technology (or draft “n”), none of my computers or gadgets has the “N” specs but I’m just getting ready to the future. What made me go for the Apple product was the recent purchase of a used PowerBook G4, I try connecting to my D-Link router and I … Continue reading →

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