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Touch Bar-equipped 2016 MacBook Pro notebooks do away with classic startup chime sound

The Apple startup chime you know and love has gone the way of the dodo with the new Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro. Pingie noticed that the new notebook’s NVRAM reset instructions lacked a reference to the startup chime. They later said they were able to confirm the change after getting their hands on a new […]

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iFixit programmer drills 60 small holes in MacBook Pro to help resolve overheating issues

This is somewhat psychotic. And it just might work. Per 9to5Mac, a programmer over at iFixit was able to resolve an overheating problem with a MacBook Pro notebook by drilling a ring of holes under each of its fans. With a 1/16” bit, the group drilled holes in the bottom case, under the fans (they […]

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Perhaps the Greatest Thing Ever

It’s unassailably cool, a perfect combination of cats, programmable Arduino circuitry, LEDs, Twitter and the shell from your old eMac. Per creator Samuel Cox, you too can develop an eSleeper, which turned a hollowed-out eMac into a bed for his feline. Inside the shell is an Arduino Ethernet connected to an IR sensor, some LEDs […]