Recently I started to run low on space so I decided to buy a new hard drive and although the speed increase from the faster drive was a nice bonus I still felt like something was missing, oh thats right an HD ACTIVITY LIGHT APPLE! I can see Steve Jobs making this call while saying something along the lines of it distracting from the cleanliness of the design and he probably called it an obsolete feature stating most disks are constantly active with modern search indexing and background tasks blah blah, I obviously don’t agree with this and many others don’t agree either. Even if I didn’t find this useful in OSX I do dual boot Windows and sometimes I find myself saying “what the hell is this thing doing”, its nice to know if it is doing something or if the OS is hung up on a task. Anyway enough ranting let’s get into the mod. I wanted to keep everything stock looking so I needed a place to put the LED where it
iMac 2006 Core Duo to Core 2 Duo, Memory, Hard Drive Upgrade
Yes you can upgrade a weak old Core Duo iMac into a decent performing modern machine that will support the latest Mac OS and if your interested, allow you to program for the iPhone and iPad. Note: this isn’t for the faint hearted and later when I have more time I will revise this posting with more detail and I will break out the images from the gallery or add captions to the gallery photos to give a better understanding of what is going on in each photo. The first thing you need to do it open up the iMac, I really wish I would have read how to do this before attempting it on my own because there are two metal levers inside of the front bezel which you need to press to allow the bezel to release. I thought it was just being stubborn and since the metal is so thin I ended up bending it and eventually had to remove the metal framework to get the bezel to fit flush. This is the
Upgrade ZT MS-16362 to 4GB of RAM
This is a quick litle guide on upgrading a ZT model MS-16362 to 4GB of DDR-II Memory A.K.A. Ram. The laptop comes with 1-2GB of DDR depending on model but is capable of up to 4GB. How do we unlock this potential you ask? Simple, we upgrade the BIOS. Now hold your horses there little lassy, Before you go hoping over to the beautifully craptified and outdated ZT website I must worn you that just like the website, the BIOS is very outdated. So what do we do now? Well if you read my other post found here you will see a ZT MS-16362 is nothing more than an MSI 1636 (EX600). This is good because unlike ZT it appears MSI has kept their BIOS’s up to date. If you read this article I posted a while back you will see how I came to the conclusion that the ZT MS-16362 was capable of a 4GB memory upgrade. So how do we perform this black art voodoo magic you ask? Well its no voodoo or magic
Kore ~ My MSI 1636 Gaming Laptop
The Kore was named after thinking of something to symbolize the centralized brain PC on the network. Originally I bought this laptop for my wife. I was looking for something cheap but was distracted by the $300 off one day sale on this little beast of a laptop. The laptop is a ZT which is basically a re-branded MSI gaming laptop. The price was $1,000 with $300 off for one day only on Newegg, I had to have it. There are a couple things I don’t like such as how when the laptop is turned off or goes to sleep for some reason the wireless shuts off and then you have to press the wireless button near the power button to turn it back on. There is not way to have it come on automatically when booted into Windows. The battery life is actually very good for a laptop with these specs and gaming performance isn’t bad either. Lets just into the specs and then a couple shots of the laptop. OS Make: Microsoft Model:
