What To Do Before Upgrading to MacOS Sierra

Apple Pay on Apple Sierra

Is it time for an upgrade? First, you should ask yourself if you really need to upgrade. We do not recommend upgrading to Sierra until at least the .3 iteration of the program (so 10.12.3) for most people. There are dangers to early adoption of a new operating system version. We’ve already seen a few …

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Today is a Good Day to Back Up Your Mac

Backup hard drive

Always Have A Current Backup It’s never a bad time to back up your important data. Believe us, you don’t want to face a hard drive failure without the safety net of a recent backup. Did you know you can set up a Time Machine backup with any external drive? Even if it’s not a …

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Dust Inside iMac – Overheating and loud fans

Dust on the inside of an iMac

This iMac is one of the dustiest ones we’ve seen in a while! It’s a good idea to keep any computer as clean as possible. If you’re experiencing overheating, loud fans, and your iMac is in a dusty location like a garage, basement, or workspace, you might find something like this inside. All that dust …

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What does a broken LCD look like?

Point of impact on Retina MacBook Pro screen

A broken LCD looks like this:       Unless it looks like this:       Or vertical lines like this:       Sometimes even this:     That one kind of looks like gathering storm clouds against the El Capitan background.     And this one looks like a bullet hole on …

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