Are you a registered developer with Apple? Do you want to try out Mavericks without risking your entire Mac to a potentially wonky version of OS X? I haven’t seen any major issues, yet, but that doesn ...

More Mac 101, our ongoing series of tips and tidbits for new Mac users. When I wrote my post Tuesday about booting a Mac off an external USB hard drive, I was surprised how many people followed up to ...

I need to replace the internal drive in an iMac (I've done this before - on this iMac - without any troubles) but this time (in a dry run) I can't get the iMac to boot from an external recovery ...

When I received my new Intel-based iMac, I attempted to install Mac OS X on an external FireWire hard drive. Imagine my surprise when I hit a brick wall attempting this formerly simple task. While the ...