It’s an unhappy day when you go to turn your MacBook on after an update or blissful recharging sleep — and something goes wrong. Maybe nothing happens at all. Maybe your Mac tries to turn on but doesn ...

I've had issues booting some Intel Macs from USB thumb drives. Specifically, the Lion thumb drive that I made a few months ago worked fine with an early 2008 MacBook Pro, but didn't show up in the ...

I have a Core 2 Duo black MacBook that I purchased in December '07, and it won't boot off my USB stick. To make the stick, I split it into two GUID partitions and restored the 10.6 install disk to the ...

Bombich Software recently updated Carbon Copy Cloner to version 6, and its founder, Mike Bombich, posted a blog entry explaining some of the intricacies involved with updating cloning software for Big ...

Uh-oh. You're in the middle of work when your laptop suddenly shuts off. No problem, you'll just press the power button and wait for it to reboot—your document is (thankfully) saved to the cloud, ...

After more than three decades as a Mac user, trainer, and consultant, I’ve seen and resolved more than my share of Mac snafus. Over those years, I’ve developed a checklist of things to try when a good ...