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MacBook Air Core Shutdowns and Freezes

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · MacBook Air

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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MacBook Air SuperDrive jammed and will not eject so shake it!

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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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I’m such an idiot

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I jammed a superdrive back in April. Forgot about not leaving a DVD in there and now Microsoft Office 2008 is stuck in there and it won’t come out. I can actually hear the drive spinup and try to access and then stop. Once I even got the CD icon for a second. Looks to [...]

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