Solid-state drives (SSDs) come with all kinds of perks over your standard hard drive, not the least of which involves serious speed boosts for your computing. Here's how I installed an SSD in my ...

I recently purchased a new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and wanted to share some of the intricacies of swapping out the hard drive. Whenever I place an order for a new just-released machine from Apple I ...

It might seem incredible, but today Apple only sells a single MacBook Pro that still uses a hard drive. As of Apple's update in October, all of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros(Opens in a new ...

My Mac is now silent. After installing a solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts, the drone of my iMac’s hard drive and fans has given way to such an absence of sound that I only hear the ...

A while back, I mentioned that I’d be testing out a number of possible upgrades for the MacBook Pro. One of those upgrades was Hitachi’s Travelstar 2.5″ Internal Hard Drive 2-in-1 Notebook PC Upgrade ...

When we recently detailed how to boost the storage space in a MacBook Air with a replacement solid state drive module, some readers asked what it would be like to swap the hard drive in an older ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

After the Build-Your-Own "Ultimate" Adobe Photoshop CS6 PC piece I wrote a few weeks ago I learned three things about Hardware 2.0 readers. First, a lot of you use ...

It's easy to install a new hard drive in your desktop computer, but laptops can be a whole other ball of wax, because the drive is usually wedged deep into the notebook's innards and it takes a lot ...