Despite Apple’s best efforts, you can make a bootable install disk of Mac OS X Lion… but it’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who aren’t tech inclined. Luckily, there’s an even easier way to make ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25537273#p25537273:i88v4p9p said: barefootguru[/url]":i88v4p9p]For Mountain Lion I just ran the installer to put a ...

Adaptec driver "known issues" Regarding the newly released OS X beta drivers for Adaptec SCSI cards (mentioned here last Friday), Adaptec also has posted a "known issues" page for these drivers. Among ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29841933#p29841933:kvrcoc6g said: r3loaded[/url]":kvrcoc6g]Wow, so there's an entire GUI app that's been written to ...

Today, I set out to explore the exhibits on the Expo floor. Given MacFixIt's troubleshooting emphasis, my tour was skewed toward finding interesting utilities. With that in mind, my first stop was to ...

You can’t boot OS X from a USB hard drive. That might be old news to the more tech savvy among you. But it’s something that a lot of people don’t seem to know. In fact, only one person I ...