There’s nothing like a quiet warranty extension to put your mind at ease. Per MacRumors, Apple on Friday quietly extended its iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program coverage back two years to include models sold from October 2009, effectively adding almost two years to the initiative which previously included machines sold between May and […]
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If you have a good thing that people want, there’s going to be demand. As such, during the next several hours after Apple’s launch of the third-generation iPad, the company’s online store suffered a catastrophic failure as a result of the impending traffic and transactions that came to its door. As always, PowerPage head honcho […]
If you bought an iMac between May and July of this year, you might have a replacement hard drive coming your way. Per AppleInsider, Apple is recalling some Seagate 1TB hard drives used in iMac systems sold between May 2011 and July 2011 because of an unspecified failure issue. The program was initiated on Friday […]
Prosoft Engineering has released Drive Genius 3.1, an updated version of its drive repair and recovery program for Mac OS X. The new version, a 16.6 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and features: – The system startup volume can now be defragmented without the need of a DVD or alternate startup volume (“live” defrag). […]
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Another Bulging MacBook Pro Battery
Here’s another picture of a bulged MacBook Pro battery from PowerPage reader “Abe.” I called Apple on Monday and got a replacement with a pre-paid airbill for the return today. Zero problem with them on the phone. Once I told them what had happened he did not even ask any questions. Said a new one […]