The time had come for me to reinstall or upgrade the software in my old Mac G4. While the system works fairly well (except when it freezes for no apparent reason!), it was clear that it wasn’t “all ...

When I bought a new laptop earlier this year, it was after several cautionary notes from fellow ET contributors that I might regret not waiting a few months for Ivy Bridge. I was thrilled with the ...

Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for saving, ...

Father Tom Gillespie (a father, not a Father) seeks advice to help his son. He writes: My son bought a PowerBook in 2005. It works fine except for a crashed disk drive. Our local Apple Store wanted ...