First restart may be longer than usual Note that your first restart after installing Mac OS X 10.4.3 may be longer than usual -- up to 10 minutes or more on some system installations. The stall is ...

We showed you a handful of fantastic, instant keyboard shortcuts to shut down, reboot, or sleep your Mac, but an even safer way is to bring up the Power button dialog box that happens when you hit the ...

Ecleti (www.ecleti.com) has updated Mac Restart to version 2.2. The app allows you to implement a “soft restart” or “hard restart” to your Mac in case of problems. Version 2.2 has bug fixes and is ...

If you have a modern Mac, there’s almost no reason not to use FileVault, the all-disk encryption that’s built in to OS X. It doesn’t slow the computer down, it keeps your data safe and – if the ...

I want to schedule a nightly restart of my OSX Mac mini server, but I always have another machine in the house connected to this machine remotely. I know how to set a scheduled restart, but it always ...

More on Combo disk image not mounting -- possible cause/solution We continue to cover an issue where the Mac OS X 10.4.3 combo updater disk image fails to properly ...

This seems to be mostly a corporate network type of thing. My company-owned device is an Intel MBP; if that device was my sole experience with Macs, I would not buy one for my own use. As it is, ...