A bootable Mac OS X thumb drive comes in handy when you need to troubleshoot OS issues for yourself, your family, or your friends. It’s also extremely useful for keeping your basic setup consistent ...

Bootable hard drives. Creating a bootable hard drive in Mac OS X is not difficult, but is still a significant undertaking. The most common method is to boot from a Mac OS X Install disc, run the ...

Do you use multiple partitions on your Mac? Maybe you use Apple’s Boot Camp tool to boot your Mac into Windows occasionally, or maybe you’ve got a Mac Pro loaded with four drives partitioned into 16 ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

Despite Apple’s best efforts, you can make a bootable install disk of Mac OS X Lion… but it’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who aren’t tech inclined. Luckily, there’s an even easier way to make ...

Over the past few days we've been covering issues with starting Mac OS X when an NVidia NVidia GeForce 6800 card is installed. The issue affects not only standard installations of both Mac OS X Client ...

Boot Camp isn’t exactly a feature that’s new to Mac OS X: If you want to install Windows 8 on a Mac, for example, you’ll have to lean on the software. but perhaps you’ve only recently introduced ...

The addition of a built-in SD card reader to the 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros may have dubious utility for many users, but Apple has seen fit to include at least one feature with lots of potential use.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about hardware and software YOU need to know about. Feb 16, 2013, 06:49am EST This article is more than 10 years old. Time ...

When Apple announced Boot Camp a free public beta utility straight from above allowing users of Intel-based Macs to easily install WindowsXP alongside OS X people came out in droves to try it out.

If you've ever have to wipe the drive of a very old Mac, you know you need an old macOS to get it running again. Beyond ...