About a month ago I started having issues with my MacBook Pro’s Superdrive. Every now and then, when I inserted a CD or DVD, the drive would make a ticking sound. Over time the noise got worse and the drive began randomly ejecting the disk. Finally, about a week ago the drive refused to mount [...]

According to Tom’s Hardware, SSDs (solid state disks) consume more power than conventional platter-based hard drives. It seems the theory behind this is that when a SSD is in use it consumes power at its maximum not matter the activity, whereas a platter-based hard drive consumes its maximum power only when the head is moving.
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The external SuperDrive that is optional for MacBook Air owners only works with the MacBook Air, until now. Tnkgrl has found what is limiting the MacBook Air external SuperDrive to the MacBook Air. The component that ensures it functions only with the MacBook Air is a IDE to USB controller. After a few components were moved, [...]

Please note: This is a repost from OS X 411, view the original article here.
Before Apple released Leopard, I wanted to speedup my MacBook Pro, which came standard with a 5400 RPM SATA laptop drive. It’s (at the time I purchased it) a stock MacBook Pro, with the Intel 2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, [...]