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If you’ve bought one of the recent iMacs, you’ve probably noticed that they now come with a bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse. As convenient as this may be in the Mac OS, it causes huge headaches when installing Windows. For starters, when you’re trying the Windows install, don’t be surprised if the keyboard/mouse aren’t working [...]

A quick note: There are plenty of guides out there about taking apart your Mac Mini in order to install/upgrade the RAM, and swap out the hard drive with another. This is meant to be a supplement to those guides, because you’ll notice that the most recent Mac Mini’s (as of this date), are slightly [...]

On the lookout for a small case, capable of holding a typical small motherboard, I came across the IN-WIN BL-631. It’s a small case making it somewhat portable, it can hold a MicroATX motherboard, half-size video cards, 2 hard drives, and a standard CD/DVD-ROM drive. Unfortunately, if you decide to actually utilize all those things, [...]

We’ve got a couple ASUS P5KPL-CM motherboards, and when we’d try to put them to sleep, well they’d wake right back up again. Immediately. Everything powers down, you get the click, then it immediately wakes from sleep. This happened both in Windows 7 as well as in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (a hackintosh install) [...]

UPDATE: Samsung’s released Windows 7 drivers. You can find them here: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/ML-1210 or for the direct link here: http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/200910/20091020193406500/ML-1200_Win7.exe (thanks to Paul and Keith for the links in the comments below). So… Install Windows 7, hook up the Samsung ML-1210 printer, and… …well not much happens. If you’ve gone to Samsung’s site, you may have [...]

If you’re using the MSI X58 PRO-E motherboard and have checked out the temperatures in your BIOS, you might be alarmed to find that the IOH temperature (northbridge) is quite high. Indeed, a little searching around will show that you’re not alone – plenty of these motherboard owners have expressed similar concerns. The good news [...]

Today we’re taking a quick look at the Antec Sonata III Mid Tower Quiet Case. The Sonata III was bought as a replacement for the Sonata Piano Finish case. It’s actually very similar, although it doesn’t have quite the same piano-finish look to it. There have been improvements in other areas though, and they’ll be [...]

After years of not having to worry about wireless, I was forced to buy a new router to replace a fried one (lightning) and was now looking at wireless-N. Where I was stuck was trying to figure out was if I should be going for one of these “Dual-Band” Wireless-N thingies or not. They supported [...]

I recently bought an Intel Quad Core Q6600. I’ve been doing a lot of Video Encoding for the Apple TV, and while a fine chip, the E2140 just wasn’t cutting it time-wise for quality encodes. I grabbed some pics of the process with my new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W35 (if the blurry pics from my previous [...]

It’s been well known for some time now that heatsinks aren’t always perfectly smooth and flat. Sometimes the machining process used when making a heatsink leaves much to be desired. A poor surface means poor contact with the CPU, which translates to less effective cooling, and thus, higher temperatures. “Lapping” the heatsink is a technique [...]