The MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar isn’t highly useful right out of the box. There might be practical tasks you can accomplish with it, but with the default settings, it’s only a cosmetic upgrade over the function keys it replaced. Fortunately, utilities exist that can dramatically improve the usefulness of the Touch Bar by allowing for […]
7 Actually Useful Ways to Extend Your MacBook Pro Battery Life
The world of battery extension is stocked with myths and legends. Lower your brightness before sleeping the device, quit every app you aren’t using, turn on single app mode — the list is as long as it is ineffective. Here are the tips that actually extend your MacBook Pro battery: some by a little, some […]
How Apple’s Solid State Hard Drives Work
All Apple laptops have contained SSD storage since 2014, providing ultra-fast storage communication to the onboard SSD. As common as these drives are, true understanding of their technological underpinnings is more rare. We can examine the technology to see how SSDs work and what makes Apple’s SSD drives special. What is NAND memory? Computer processors […]
Apple Kit Customer Data Migration Tool For MacBook Pro 2016-2018
This kit has been around for roughly two years – ever since the version of MacBook Pros came out containing soldered-in SSDs. According to their company reps, the tool is available directly from Apple. Other kits have surfaced on eBay – after considerable searching – and they are more expensive and are being promoted as […]
Is The MacBook Pro Keyboard Lawsuit a Big Deal?
Just recently, news came out that Apple was being sued over their MacBook Pros. Some lawyers have filed a class action lawsuit about the reliability issues in the keyboards attached to the current model of MacBook Pro. These keyboards have anecdotally shown themselves to be unreliable and prone to failure or malfunction based on the […]
Integrated vs Dedicated Graphics: Which MacBook Should You Get?
Some MacBooks use integrated graphics, while others offer dedicated graphics. In integrated vs dedicated graphics, what’s the difference, and which MacBook should you get? It depends largely on your needs. But how did it end up this way? Integrated vs Dedicated Graphics: The History Once upon a time, every computer component was a separate card. […]
Customize the Touch Bar with BetterTouchTool
Once you get past the gee-whiz factor of your new MacBook Pro’s contextually-aware Touch Bar, you might start to wonder if it can do anything useful. Fortunately, it’s capable of more than meets the eye. You can customize it using some built-in tools, or get serious about tweaking with BetterTouchTool. Customize the Touch Bar with […]
Biggest Mac Announcements from WWDC 2017
WWDC 2017 has come and gone, leaving a slew of amazing announcements in its wake. This year, Apple pulled out all the stops, announcing dozens of upgrades in a keynote address that ran for over two action-packed hours. And throughout it all, the much-neglected Mac finally got some close attention. Here’s a breakdown of the […]
How to Get Touch Bar Functionality on Your Old MacBook
A little while ago, Apple released MacBook Pros with the Touch Bar, a new method of interacting with the computer. The Touch Bar lives above your keyboard, replacing the function keys with contextually-aware software buttons that can trigger specific actions. There’s been some hemming and hawing about whether this constitutes a good features, but unless […]
Are Kaby Lake MacBook Pros Coming in 2017?
For many high-end users, Apple’s most recently laptop release has been a source of frustration. The new MacBook Pros, released back in October 2016, have been widely seen as disappointing. Mediocre hardware updates, along with limited battery life, fewer ports, and a hard cap on available RAM all contributed to the general impression that this MacBook Pro […]
