Gordon's Tech

If you have to maintain a modern Mac, it helps to be retired. How else would I have hours to spend one Friday pm? The 2020 Air I inherited f...

My 2015 MacBook Air uses Thunderbolt 2; it was connected to an elgato T2 hub (reliable for over 6 years) with a few USB and Firewire 800 per...

I pay about $4 or so every month to 1Password because I have not yet been able to replace it. Reason enough to dislike them, but there's...

Solved 9/12/2022 I wrote the post below when I used an iPhone 8. When I went to an iPhone 13 it seemed to resolve, but today I tried chargin...

I use Ctrl-Shift-Power to put my MacBook Air display to sleep each night. That doesn't work on a Mac with Touch ID. I believe the only ...

I tried using a SanDisk USB Flash ("thumb") drive as an alternative Time Machine backup device on my daughter's 2020 Intel Mac...

I replaced Emily's 8-9 yo MacBook Air 11" running High Sierra with Apple's latest (M1) Air (Big Sur). A few notes for others wh...

My 2015 Air shut down suddenly two weeks ago. The battery was at about 80%. When I got it home and plugged it in it showed classic bad SMC b...

I am a bit freaked out about how painless this was. The experience was surreal to someone of my vintage. My primary machine is a 10 month o...

When my G5 iMac finally died  (1995-2014) I first thought we’d need another machine - like Apple’s top-secret max value DVD containing lapto...

First of all, the best family computer is still a Mac. ChromeBooks will be a good option when prices fall below $180 for reasonable build qu...

I don't  use my MacBook Air that often, since I usually travel with a corporate behemoth and I'm otherwise home bound or occupied. S...

We converted our  2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo dual USB to Lion  a few weeks ago. Don't bother; the MacBook isn't up to it. It's too ...

Our vintage 2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo can, in theory, run Lion [1]. I just upgraded it from Snow Leopard, which it ran reasonably well albeit...

My MacBook fan was roaring.  Again . This time, however, activity monitor didn't show much going on. It wasn't a Flash ad running in...

My T-Connector style MagSafe LED (green light) goes off periodically. Disconnecting and reconnecting the T connector will turn it back on. T...

Our 3 yo Dual USB MacBook (Intel dual core) is having intermittent wake from sleep problems. It's on a WiFi network and running Leopard ...

I'm halfway to buying a MacBook Air, but I'm sticking with Gordon's rules of acquisition . I'm good with #2-#4, but working ...

The last time I messed with my home wireless network I jumped through hoops to connect an old 802.11b iBook (yes, the computer, not the app)...

My mothers modem lights were flickering madly -- but I couldn't see why. All was quiet. It wasn't just the lights -- the network per...