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REVIEW: Micromat TechTool Protege

Like many of you, I’ve done Macintosh support for years. In fact, I used to support several newspapers in Philadelphia and was the guy that arrived on site with two bags. One bag contained a bootable SCSI hard drive with the latest version of the Mac OS installed and every conceivable recovery, repair and diagnostic tool under the sun installed. The other bag contained my PowerBook and a selection of tools.
With this setup I could diagnose and fix most Mac problems on the spot, the problem was that it was heavy and, well, SCSI. Enough said. Today, I don’t do as much field support, but still carry a bootable Firewire hard drive and the original silk-screened Mac OS DVDs that came with my machine.
There’s a new tool that I’ve been using that has the potential to save me the hassle of carrying around that external hard drive: The TechTool Protege from Micromat.

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News

Other World Computer Prices for ModBook and Quickview

According to an article on MacNN, Other World Computing has dropped the price of its ModBook tablet conversion by Axiotron as well as the price for its Maxtor Quickview 500 gigabyte SATA hard drive and its Mercury On-The-Go portable drives. The ModBook, which was announced at Macworld Expo, will be available for $2,200 through February […]

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Macworld Posts Detailed ModBook First Look

Macworld News has posted a detailed first look at the upcoming ModBook being developed by Axiotron and distributed by Other World Computing. The article covers a slew of technical details that were unavailable at the time of its release at Macworld Expo and gives author’s Jonathan Seff’s opinions on his experience of a few days […]

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News

Barefeats Compares MacBook Pro Units in Gaming Tests

An article on Bare Feats squares two 17″ MacBook Pro laptops, one based on a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor and the other based on a 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, off against each other to determine the better 3D gaming machine: After several rounds of tests including Quake 4, Doom 3 and […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Why iPhone should remain closed

Readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of the Treo and still believe it to be the best smartphone for Mac users. However when people ask me what I think about my Treo, I usually respond: “The best thing about the Treo is that you can install any software you want on it. But the worst thing about the Treo is that you can install any software you want on it.”