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Macbook Pro Unibody Hard Drive Disk Activity Light – MOD

Posted on March 18, 2012 by David Orlo

Recently I started to run low on space so I decided to buy a new hard drive and although the speed increase from the faster drive was a nice bonus I still felt like something was missing, oh thats right an HD ACTIVITY LIGHT APPLE! I can see Steve Jobs making this call while saying something along the lines of it distracting from the cleanliness of the design and he probably called it an obsolete feature stating most disks are constantly active with modern search indexing and background tasks blah blah, I obviously don’t agree with this and many others

iMac 2006 Core Duo to Core 2 Duo, Memory, Hard Drive Upgrade

Posted on February 18, 2012 by David Orlo

Yes you can upgrade a weak old Core Duo iMac into a decent performing modern machine that will support the latest Mac OS and if your interested, allow you to program for the iPhone and iPad. Note: this isn’t for the faint hearted and later when I have more time I will revise this posting with more detail and I will break out the images from the gallery or add captions to the gallery photos to give a better understanding of what is going on in each photo. The first thing you need to do it open up the iMac,

Upgrade ZT MS-16362 to 4GB of RAM

Posted on August 1, 2010 by David Orlo

This is a quick litle guide on upgrading a ZT model MS-16362 to 4GB of DDR-II Memory A.K.A. Ram. The laptop comes with 1-2GB of DDR depending on model but is capable of up to 4GB. How do we unlock this potential you ask? Simple, we upgrade the BIOS. Now hold your horses there little lassy, Before you go hoping over to the beautifully craptified and outdated ZT website I must worn you that just like the website, the BIOS is very outdated. So what do we do now? Well if you read my other post found here you will see

Kore ~ My MSI 1636 Gaming Laptop

Posted on May 3, 2009 by David Orlo

The Kore was named after thinking of something to symbolize the centralized brain PC on the network. Originally I bought this laptop for my wife. I was looking for something cheap but was distracted by the $300 off one day sale on this little beast of a laptop. The laptop is a ZT which is basically a re-branded MSI gaming laptop. The price was $1,000 with $300 off for one day only on Newegg, I had to have it. There are a couple things I don’t like such as how when the laptop is turned off or goes to sleep