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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...