Posts Tagged ‘operating-systems’
The Case for Partitioning Your Mac’s Hard Drive
I’ve been partitioning my hard drives since my very first Mac — a used Mac Plus back in 1992. Yes, I divided the Plus’s commodious 20MB external SCSI HD into two partitions so I could boot either System 6 (for speed) or System 7 (for Internet support). I’m not as big an aficionado of partitioning as I once was, although all of my Macs since the Plus have had partitioned hard drives, including the unibody MacBook I’m typing this on, which has two HD partitions Read the rest of this entry »
Mac OS X, iPhone OS, Safari Down or Flat in November
November was not a great month for Apple, at least according to web metrics firm Net Applications . While one could argue the launch of Windows 7 in October may have negatively impacted market share for OS X, Safari also lost ground to Chrome , and even the iPhone OS saw a slight decline against competitors. Read the rest of this entry »