http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvdAN_caP9E

Heres an awesome video tutorial on swapping out you DVD drive for an additional SSD on a 2010 MacBook Pro.

The entire kit plus a 120GB SSD is going for 279 bucks at MacSales (240 GB at 549). If you replaced the primary HDD with a 240 and added a secondary 240, you would have almost half a TB of screaming fast space on the road.

480 GB of SSD in a MacBook Pro is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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After some digging around I come across this neat tool for looking up the hardware serial number of your Mac product(s) to check on its registration and warranty info. Of course you can not see names or addresses, but its handy to see if your device has ever been registered and if there is still warranty on it.

Find your Mac products registration and warranty is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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If you head over to the online Mac store and load up the biggest baddest Mac Pro that Apple offers, you will be paying well over 15k USD.

One question, when will they offer USB 3? I believe waiting just for this one option will be worth it.

That’s the same price as Dells 32Gb laptop.

$15,000 MacPro: no USB 3? is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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Following up on my first iPad report, I must report I still love my iPad and have used it as a laptop replacement for 3 international trips since the first post.

Adding to the points covered in that first report, Im happy to say there have been no major additions to the drawbacks. The lack of Ethernet support bit me in the ass again as the hotel I stayed in had no wifi coverage on my floor. I guess I will start hunting for a tiny wifi AP that I can plug in to the ethernet that supplies my devices with life.

I lost 25 minutes of work due to the WordPress App (read my hateful tirade) which ticked me off a bit. The bluetooth keyboard support is still a little lame (some of the modifier keys don’t work which really screws me over when using SSH apps) but word is that iOS 4 for iPad should address that shortcoming.

I used these guides (gizmodo and Joels report) to get some movies on and had enough juice to watch about 5 HD movies/TV shows back to back on the long flight stretches.

I still love my iPad is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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I am loving my iPad so far but one gripe I have is the charging dock that Apple supplies. While functioning both as a dock and a stand it falls short in many areas.

Stability is by no means incorporated into the design and any shaking of the table or slight bumps can cause a tip.

If you have the iPad in any kind of case, bumper or sleeve, it will not fit into the stand at all.

It is not collapsible so the the ridge that protrudes upwards can be an obstacle in some bags.

The video ad for the Griffin foldaway stand (above) look promising (even though this particular model does not include a charging function). I guess we should see if the case/bumper/sleeve issue is resolved. Personally I think something like this should sell for 20 bucks (site price is 50) as its just a glorified lean-to.

iPad – Just dock it is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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iPhone Unibody… I call trollin is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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Girls only!! Swiss iPhone policy is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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• Some users have a problem with reception
• Some users report no problems whatsoever
• Apple has not issued an official fix
• Apple has recommended holding the iPhone in a specific way or using a ‘bumper’ case
• Apple has said it will release a firmware fix for bar display

Apple users aren’t after sex appeal, they are after the best technology has to offer. We all know Apple creates the best products and Consumer Reports just confirmed it by ranking the iPhone 4 as their top pick! So you might want to learn why Apple products are are so popular. It’s all about wanting the best in your life and not being concerned about status symbols.

That’s gotta suck. Way to go crApple.

You can go pee up a rope. Probably the same hypocritical fanboy who calls Microsoft “Windoze” or “Micro$oft”. The double standard simply has no end w/ iSheeple.

Wow, you Android fanboys are worse than I thought. You assume so much about me. First of all, I was simply pointing out an important rule of debate. Name-calling is an automatic lose. I was not debating anything at all, but by automatic name-calling, he most certainly was trying to start something. Secondly, ck0, you are the one who seems to have his panties in a wad. Lastly, I can and often fully admit that Apple makes mistakes. Yet you Android fanboys love to go way out of your way and make blanket statements about how anyone who buys Apple products are blind and “iSheeple” (there goes the ridiculous name-calling again).

are u guys mesmerized? or hypnotized? u guys r supporting a damn rubber band!!! chk out anyother rubber bands available in the market.. they too have a combination of all wat u say!! OMG… Steve has become the pied piper. I am jus amazed how ignorant n foolish ppl become to jus to support a phone which drops calls… personally i think i would not even buy a $10 phone if it drops calls or if they dictate me to hold the phone the way they like!

Small Glitch? Thank god that Apple doesn’t make medical equipment that contains the same level of small glitches. I’d hate to find a defibrillator that would require two right hands to operate.

The iSheep will still buy anything that Apple makes. “the blind leading the blind”

Why are you s hate filled towards the best made products? Did you get hit on the head by a Droid when you were a child?

do you expect them to line up in front of Apple stores and yell: “Apple, Apple, Apple”? a phone is just a phone; buddy! It isn’t your wife, your gf, or your life. As BADWOLF said:”the truth hurts”

This is not a flaw, it is not a problem, I have an iPhone 4 and it has the best reception of any phone I have ever had, I have one bar in my house and all other phones including the droid drop calls in my house as well as the 3GS but the 4 holds on to them all, this is all bs from bloggers that are anti-apple whom are out to get them.

iPhone 4 recall is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

To fix this, we are adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone’s bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.

We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

Apple says its a bar display problem…. ooookaaay then is a post from: Erixun's Entertainment and Technology Blog

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