A common way to keep your important files close at hand while away from home or office is to carry them with you on a portable hard drive. Of course, this approach doesn’t guarantee that the computers ...

August 5, 1997: Apple gets into a standoff with Power Computing, a maker of Macintosh clones. A very public clash at the Macworld Expo in Boston marks the beginning of the end for Apple’s mid-1990s ...

The simplest way to clone the disk is with a dual HDD/SSD dock. Almost every dual dock has a cloning function built in. Insert the HDD into the Source bay and the SSD into the Target bay. Long press ...

April 27, 2008: Psystar’s first Mac clones ship to customers. The company’s new Open Computer means that, for the first time since the mid-1990s, there’s no need to assemble a “hackintosh” to run OS X ...

We have received a number of requests recently for repair outlets that will handle now-defunct Macintosh clones including those from Power Computing, DayStar, Motorola, and others. Leon Maurer writes ...

It sometimes happens that, in an extreme situation, it is necessary to reinstall the system. We have, indeed, explained in a recent tutorial that this is not difficult or time-consuming, and that it ...

Although this motherboard has only a fraction of the power of a modern computer, I find that I have a strange yearning to see MS-DOS booting up once more. My chum James “Chewy” Vroman just sent me the ...

Most people in IT are overwhelmed with possibilities for using the cloud. Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides raw materials such as virtual machines, storage and databases for computing.

The company that made news yesterday by announcing a Mac clone said today it had “no comment” about how it will address legal issues in Apple Inc.’s licensing agreement that bans installation of Mac ...

Solid State Disks Limited (SSDL) has released DuplicatorPlus, a device for cloning or copying the contents of most SCSI-based drives onto a CF card, networked computer or the cloud.