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I’ve installed the update and it really helps. Looks like what it essentially does is that in extreme situations it throttles the two CPUs down to 800MHz rather than the really drastic stuff where one CPU shuts down and performance falls. There is much controversy about twhat happens. There are three utilities that every MBA [...]

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Well, when my machine was freezing, I was used to Windows so my first thought was, uh oh, the hard disk is crashing. Ran Disk Utility and it asked me to Repair the disk with the installation Mac OS X. First note, you should always have this DVD with you whereever you go (I didn’t), [...]

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Well, maybe I’m hard on hardware, but have four problems with my MacBook Air right now in order of problems:
Intermittent Freezing (aka Core Shutdown)
Originally I thought that this was because my hard disk has corruption problems. ClamAV would run and then system would lock, so then I disabled this, but still had it. Then had [...]

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Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]

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The ultraportables are some of the most interesting improvements being made now. With the X300 out now, you can really make a comparison. The long and short of it is that the X300 looks like a PC rather than a style marvel and has a solid state disk like the MacBook Air option. It does [...]

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figuring out the best printers to buy was fun, but figuring out Time Machine isn’t. Sooo tired…off to bed #
@brucery welcome home B ruce! #
Currently Browsing: http://tinyurl.com/2ujahy way cool! #
Battling Time Machine and Apple. Works on MBP, but slow on MBA #

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Well, many folks on Apple’s discussion are talking about performance issues with 7.3.1. Like me, I now lose the connection to the Time Capsule drive and then Time Machine fails and looks for a password (which should be on the key chain).
The other problem is slow network speeds where folks are seeeing speed stuck [...]

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i just had these problems. With Parallels, you get a kernel panic and the equivalent of the blue screen of death. What happens is you get the message to hit the power button in a nice window floating on top. It’s never been a problem with the Macbook Pro or Macbook. There is a hotfix [...]

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