My Macbook (13″, purchased May ’07) just ceased to boot (black screen on startup).  Tried all the standard tricks, no luck.  Took it in to the Apple store and they tested and declared that one of the memory (RAM) slots had failed, but it would boot if I removed the RAM from that slot.  They [...]

In the last post, I use the excellent SuperDuper! tool to make abootable clone of my hard drive. There are some (more advanced)techniques that can be used that allow bootable clones to be createdon the command line using free tools. I had some trouble gettingclones to work on the command line, but finally worked through [...]

The Macbook I bought back in May of 2007 has been getting a bit long in the tooth. Shortly after I bought it, I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB, so the memory and the processor have been holding up just fine for me, as I mainly program and use VMWare (not much gaming). But, [...]