The RAM your Mac uses to support its OS and applications purges its contents every time you shut down your computer as well as when you unplug a desktop system or remove the main battery from a laptop ...

Desktop computers use a specialized form of memory to store basic startup settings. Backed up by a small battery attached to the computer's motherboard, the settings in this storage persist after you ...

Sometimes it was necessary to carry out a little maintenance on your Apple MacBook or iMac computers if you feel they are not quite running as well as they could. One method on older Macs was to carry ...

All computers act up from time to time. When things go awry, my first recommendation is always to simply shut down and reboot: Often, this simple power cycle fixes the issue. However, you might run ...

The Parameter RAM is a small amount of "nonvolatile" RAM (NVRAM) that holds various settings that the system can use before the operating system loads, and maintains these settings even when the ...

When I first installed OS X.3 (clean, on a newly formatted partition), at one point my machine (B+W) wouldn't start up, crashing very early on in the boot process, even when booting from CD. Resetting ...

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, ...

Apple's Auto Boot feature often causes battery problems if suddenly activated without the user knowing It is possible to disable the feature using a system-related app of the MacBook It can be turned ...