Macbook Pro SSD Upgrade
Posted: February 27, 2011 Filed under: Hardware | Tags: macbook pro, ssd 4 Comments »Today I replaced the 7200 RPM 250GB Hard Drive in my laptop with a 120GB SSD. Here are the Xbench Disk Test results:
Before - Hard Drive
After - SSD
More important though is how the system feels: blazing fast – I never expected this level of improvement!
Broken MicroSD card
Posted: August 9, 2010 Filed under: Hardware, thoughts | Tags: memory, microsd Leave a comment »I’ve put my phone’s 8GB MicroSD card in an adapter the wrong way, and this is what happened when I tried to pull it out:
Then I remembered how my father was excited they got a 40MB hard drive in the computer training center where he worked, 20 years ago. It was huge!
Two hundred times that in a plastic card smaller than my thumb nail? I admire who ever had the imagination to dream that.
What to do when the MacBook battery drains in Sleep
Posted: June 20, 2010 Filed under: Hardware | Tags: battery, drain, macbook, sleep, tips Leave a comment »A couple of weeks ago my MacBook battery started to drain heavily when the computer was in sleep (standby) mode. This was really troubling – and while I was still getting a decent enough run on a full charge, a “Service Battery” notice also appeared on the power menu.
The fix? A reset of the System Management Controller:
In some cases, resetting the SMC may be the only correct method to resolve the issue, however, an SMC reset should only be attempted after all other standard troubleshooting has been performed.
From Apple support site, Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
That didn’t remove the notice from the power menu, but the battery draining issue is gone.
Yoav Farhi, 30. Father and geek, generating happiness at 
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