Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

A while back, I mentioned that I’d be testing out a number of possible upgrades for the MacBook Pro. One of those upgrades was Hitachi’s Travelstar 2.5″ Internal Hard Drive 2-in-1 Notebook PC Upgrade ...

My Mac is now silent. After installing a solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts, the drone of my iMac’s hard drive and fans has given way to such an absence of sound that I only hear the ...

It might seem incredible, but today Apple only sells a single MacBook Pro that still uses a hard drive. As of Apple's update in October, all of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros(Opens in a new ...

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It’s a fact that no one uses optical drives anymore and so why not replace the one in your late-model MBP with something a bit more useful like an SSD. It doesn’t really seem that hard as long you’re ...

MacBooks bought between 2006 and 2007 could be eligible for a free hard drive replacement, with Apple dodging a guilty admission, stating that “a very small percentage…may fail under certain ...

Users who bought MacBooks between May 2006 and December 2007 that are experiencing hard drive problems may be covered under a new repair extension program. Apple announced the repair extension for ...

The SSD solid-state hard drives included in MacBook Airs or available as an option with other MacBooks are proprietary components. This means that unlike the regular hard drives included in other ...

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I don't follow this forum regularly. Only reason I'm here now is that my wife's MacBook (13 inch, late 2006 vintage) apparently has a hard drive going south.