I recently upgraded Orion’s storage partition from an old Western Digital Green drive that I had been running for years to a Seagate FireCuda solid state hard drive (SSHD). The primary reason for this upgrade was to have a combination of extra storage space (2 TB) with speed (the SSD…
Before heading home to Houston, I was able to purchase the ASUS ROG Strix Vega 64 graphics processing unit (GPU). At the time of this writing, this is arguably the most powerful GPU compatible with Mac OS Mojave out of the box. Furthermore, it’ll give an immense boost to gaming…
My old $100 tempered glass desk from Walmart that survived roughly five years between my residency and fellowships finally met its demise a few days ago. Coincidentally, it was the same weekend that I decided to revamp Orion with a Corsair H115i Pro RGB AIO CPU cooler (wonderful for overclocks),…
I upgraded my 2017 MacBook Pro (Fenix) to a 2018 MacBook Pro last month. The 13 inch, Coffee Lake based computer was a tremendous jump in performance compared to the 2017 model which I sold online for ~$1,000. I give you Rigel, my mobile computing platform.
My NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 Ti has been running strong for five years, but I had an opportunity to upgrade at an incredible price point this morning… so I bit. :-)
Since my mom uses only Apple products (iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini), I’m moving my Apple networking hardware to my parents’ house and upgraded to a new router yesterday afternoon – Google’s OnHub. Although Google has already released newer hardware (the Google WiFi), the OnHub is still superior to its smaller counterpart in…
A few weeks ago, NewEgg had a deal on a 30 GB OCZ Vertex solid state disk (SSD). Although the limited capacity is a major drawback, its proven to be a great drive for my bootloader and OS X core installation. So how do you review a solid state disk?…
With the addition of an incredibly priced SSD from NewEgg, my budget Hackintosh workstation (dubbed “The Overmind”) is officially complete. I’ll probably put together a YouTube video later, but hopefully this provides some insight as to what I use for general computing.
So I received my memory from Other World Computing this morning, and was eager to plop it into my Macbook as soon as possible. I must say from start to finish, this $100 project was well worth the money, time, and labor.