It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] ...

FireWire issues A number of users have reported issues with FireWire after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.4, including an inability to mount external FireWire drives, problems recognizing the iSight and ...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Mac OS X Server’s NetBoot process allows Macintosh machines to boot by using a server-based disk image instead of booting via a local disk. Part 1 also ...

The ability to boot to Safe Mode in OS X can be affected by hardware faults, settings, and even FileVault. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

A clone is a bootable backup of your Mac’s hard drive that provides redundancy for both your data and the Macintosh Operating System. Cloning is easy to do and is complementary to other backup methods ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

Apple’s upcoming OS X Lion release is expected to launch tomorrow, and when it does, it will be available exclusively through the Mac App Store. That means you’ll no longer be able to walk into an ...

OS X (and iOS) preserves glyph shapes at the expensive of sharpness, but again, Retina resolutions make either tradeoff moot IME running both platforms on the rMBP. On apps that simply scale ip the ...

Apple has released a massive security update for Mac OS X along with a new version of its OS, however, according to several reports, installing the patches could render computers unbootable. The Mac ...