20100705 Building a quiet PC

My main computer is a PC I assembled myself two years ago. While I don’t like fixing somebody else’s computer, I quite enjoy fine-tuning mine and learning about it in the process. It is a bit of a beast (for my purposes) with a Quad Core and lots of memory, hard disk bays (I never [...]

20080131 DIY: Replacing my powerbook’s hard drive

It is a natural-born traveller: I had owned it for less than one month and was already travelling to Barcelona with it; next came several more visits to different cities, in Spain (Madrid, Valencia, Seville) or in Europe indistinctly (Frankfurt, Helsinki). It even was my commuting companion during the month that I was working in [...]

20071101 DIY: Replace your intel mac mini’s hard disk drive

Although there are lots of tutorials and guides out there in the internets which try to guide you through the process, I found most of them are outdated (their contents applying only for PowerPC minis only, whose layout is different from intel minis) or confusing (dark pictures, etc). So after I managed to replace my [...]