My Macbook Pro 2,2 was getting a bit long in the tooth and felt slow and started to really grind using Pixelmator. I can't really justify a new laptop, and I stumbled across using an SSD expresscard ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's been ...

Nobody likes waiting forever for their PC to start up, and these tricks can help speed up that process and improve your PC.

Backups are one of those things that everyone knows is necessary, plans to make, but usually don't worry about until it is too late. Here is a quick, easy way to make a portable backup solution that ...

When something goes wrong with your Mac, it's a boon to have a separate, external drive that you can work from — but Apple no longer makes that easy. Here's how to do it. The short answer to how you ...

I have a 2019 iMac with the 21.5″ Retina display and a 1 TB Fusion Drive. It’s a 6-core monster and the slowest computer I’ve used in probably a decade. How do I make it suck less? The first step will ...