3M and IBM to Develop New Types of Adhesives to Create 3D Semiconductors. Multi-touch Whiteboard - Wii Style (by @baekdal) #trends. How To Prepare a Mac For Sale. How To Prepare a Mac For Sale Friday, 14 November 2008 • Permalink It’s time to upgrade your Mac, and you’re thinking about selling your old one. Over the years, I’ve sold many Macs, and I’ve created a set of steps to follow (and learned a few tricks) along the way that I’d like to share. Following these steps will let you sleep a bit better at night and has the added benefit of creating a great first-experience for the buyer. Step One: Back It Up Before you delete, reformat, or reinstall, back up your data. There’s little worse than realizing that the scan of the polaroid of you as a boy on the shoulders of a Philadelphia Eagles linebacker was lost during a destructive drive reformat.
Fortunately, there are lots of ways to backup your Mac. Whatever method you use, just make sure you backup, copy, or clone your data before you reformat and ship your Mac to its new home. Step Two: Deauthorize It Step Three: Reformat and Reinstall Step Four: Recreate That “Factory Fresh” Feeling Step Five" Pack It. How to Build a Hackintosh Mini for a Less Expensive, Faster Mac. How to Build a Hackintosh Mini for a Less Expensive, Faster Mac. We've shown you how to build a Hackintosh with enough power to rival a Mac Pro, but for those of you who want a still powerful Mac on a budget you can build a Hack Mini.
We'll show you what you need to build it and walk you through the entire OS X installation. UPDATE: Check out this updated option if you want an Ivy Bridge-based Hack Mini. For help building it, consult our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh. Hackintoshing used to be a complicated process, but since Hackintosh expert tonymacx86 came around it's gotten a lot easier. While I've been hackintoshing netbooks for awhile, I always shied away from building a machine because I was concerned about stability issues. After seeing how well Pash's and Whitson's Hackintoshes ran, and seeing how slow my less-than-a-year-old iMac had become, I decided it was time to do it. I've had one week with the Hack Mini and so far it's actually more stable than my iMac. What You'll Need Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Motherboard $104.99.