It’s taken a little while, but there are three new Thunderbolt devices appearing on the market. Sonnet Technologies will have an Echo ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter which lets you connect older devices to your newer Mac. Blackmagic Technologies has their UltraStudio 3D which provides portable video capture and playback for professional editors. And LaCie will have a Little Big Disk, an external storage device with either hard drives or solid-state drives in a built-in RAID 0 configuration.

Apple today rolled out a Time Machine and Airport combo update. It’s fixes some stuff, blah blah blah. But as soon as I saw “Firmware Updates,” I had a gut feeling that Apple had restored a long lost feature: backing up to Hard Drives attached to the Airport Extreme Base Station. It turns out my more »

I replaced the RAM in my MacBook after reading about it. It’s true that Apple really do overcharge for RAM upgrades, whether it’s a build-to-order computer from the online store, or an existing computer. Buying RAM from a place like Crucial is quick, easy and cheap – and apparently Micron Technology (the parent company of Crucial) supply the RAM for Apple anyway. Upgrading the hard drive in the MacBook is pretty much the same as RAM, you just open up the battery, remove a few screws and replace the drive in the slot; although you will have to re-install Mac OS X.

MacBook Pro owner Max Millon replaced his hard drive in around 40 minutes. He used the instructions at ifixit to place a massive 320GB drive into his MacBook Pro. After watching this time-lapse video, you will understand how to go through this process yourself. It’s definitely a lot harder to do than in a MacBook. I hope the next MacBook Pro will adopt the new system that the MacBook uses; because it takes less than half the time of this. Watch the video after the jump.

Laptop storage has been increasing rapidly over the past few years, with prices decreasing too. MCE technologies has just announced a 320GB SATA hard drive that will work in both the MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers from Apple. The 320GB MobileStor Performance hard drive utilizes the same technology used in current MacBook/Pro hard drives, more »

If 160GB is not enough capacity for an iPod, Toshiba has announced a new prototype of a 1.8″ HDD that could potentially hold up to 240GB. Through a technology called Discrete Track Recording (DTR), Toshiba has been able to fit 120GB on a single platter, and up to 240GB on a dual platter. The HDDs more »

We all knew it was coming, we just had no idea when. Someone has developed a patch for the AppleTV that will allow you to connect an external hard drive to it via the extra USB port, thus expanding your storage. The hack gives you the ability to sync your whole iTunes library to an more »

Is your Mac running slow, and you don’t know why? Well here are some tips and programs to help you get the most out of your Mac.

1) You may not know that having large image files – such as ones from your digital camera — make your computer slower. I don’t want to stop you from making your computer pretty, but it does slow down the system.