Posts by Christian Behrens

As corrected in the other thread, the storage is not hardwired to the board, as can be seen here: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/LknkqWKga2vIIUHD.medium   Secondly, the Mac Mini has no problems playing 1080p due to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by mattCR  Flash based ram in the form apple is using is built into the board, cannot be changed, modified or upgraded, and exists as a southbridge native (ACPI) device. SSD - or Solid State...

If you are deleting any data from your internal drive after copying it to the external one, it's no longer a backup. This is important, because when your external drive fails, you lose everything that wasn't stored somewhere...

DisplayPort (and thus miniDP on all current Macs) is actually a superset of HDMI. As mentioned, so far only the latest MacBooks that were just announced offer sound over the miniDP jack as well. I'm still hoping the previous generation...

I have the first gen 24" iMac from late 2006, and replaced the drive in it not too long ago. If you can find the service manual online for your machine, you'll get a good idea whether it's something you want to try. I was a little...

A nice collection of useful Mac and iPhone/iPod Touch apps are sold here as a small effort to help with the crisis in Haiti:http://www.indierelief.com/-Christian 

Brett,I'm not trying to be argumentative either, but I'm afraid you make a couple of misrepresentations with regards to data recovery procedures that I don't want to let stand in order to avoid that people are getting the wrong...

Brett,I agree that the enclosure should be tested to rule out as the culprit.However, a friend of mine does data recovery for a living and I have spent enough time in the lab with him to know that the clicking sound is in 99% of...

Actually, most of the time the platters will not be touched, but instead the read/write heads replaced, as to not have to re-align the platters, which is apparently A LOT more difficult than replacing the read/write heads.And the...

Rod,A clicking sound like you describe comes from the drive itself, not the enclosure. If you don't care too much about the data, have it replaced under warranty. If you DO want the data, you'll have to get in in touch with a data...