A few weeks ago Appletell previewed some of the upcoming Thunderbolt accessories, including an external hard drive from LaCie called Little Big Disk. At the time, this was still in development, but thankfully the wait is over and it’s now available at the Apple Store in both HDD and SSD models. Just remember to buy Apple’s Thunderbolt cable, which comes separately and costs $49.

The only way to really know how something works is by taking it apart and the folks at iFixit did just that with a 21.5″ Thunderbolt iMac. While many of the components were the same from the previous iMac there were a few surprises. For instance, it’s now possible to replace the CPU and the graphics card separately instead of having to replace the entire logic board if either of them fail, which can get quite costly out of warranty.

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 »

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.