Joe is a seasoned Mac veteran with years of experience on the platform. He reports on Macs, iPods, iPhones and anything else Apple sells. He even has worked in Apple retail stores. He's also a ...

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about replacing a MacBook hard drive, refreshing a NFS mount, getting a simple clock on screen, improving ...

MacBooks bought between 2006 and 2007 could be eligible for a free hard drive replacement, with Apple dodging a guilty admission, stating that “a very small percentage…may fail under certain ...

I blame the Retina MacBook Pro. Apple sent a unit for me to review for my Seattle Times column, and I was impressed (see “Retina MacBook Pro: a treat for the eyes, maybe not for the wallet”). Yes, the ...

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I don't follow this forum regularly. Only reason I'm here now is that my wife's MacBook (13 inch, late 2006 vintage) apparently has a hard drive going south.

A “small percentage” of MacBook owners whose hard drives fail will be eligible for a free replacement under a warranty extension announced by Apple this week. The laptops in questions are both black ...

Apple's new unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro began shipping earlier this week and a new tear-down of the high-end notebook reveals the steps needed to access the system's internal memory, hard drive, and ...

A step-by-step guide to fixing a black screen on MacBook Pro or an external monitor.