Hardware

Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:42pm EST

Why can’t I eject my DVD on my Mac?

by Steve Top Mac News • Hardware, Mac 101

There could be a few reasons. First, some running software could be using the drive. If you are using one of the Windows Virtual Machine software utilties such as Parallels or VMWare Fusion, that program might have “taken over” use of that drive for its own use, possibly as a Windows D: drive. Try ejecting [...]

Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:31pm EST

What is an SSD?

by Steve Top Mac News • Hardware, Mac 101

As the price of memory continues to decrease as time goes on, it has recently become more cost effective to jam a lot of memory together and use it as a storage device like a hard drive. If you’ve used a USB flash drive or taken pictures and saved them to an SD card, the [...]