The start-up chime on Macs is probably as recognizable as the default Nokia ringtone in this day and age. Yet much like a ringtone, so too one might want to change the start-up chime on a Mac ...

Being the guy who created the Apple start-up sound is nice trivia, good for a free drink sometimes, but another of Reekes’s audio creations will likely have a much longer legacy.

For some users who have the latest iMac (mid-2011), startups have been rocky, including getting stuck at a white screen or dealing with the appearance of vertical lines across their screen, even ...

How to Fix NVRAM for an iMac. 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 ...

Mac 911 How Apple’s Startup Security Utility and Secure Boot works The new iMac Pro comes with a new set of options for restricting how it starts up. Mac 911 ...

But Apple’s start-up sound wasn’t always so Zen. For a while, the sound of Apple was the sound of something going horribly wrong, a combination of notes that early-eighteenth-century music ...

My late 2009 27" iMac is suddenly running fsck_hfs on every restart. I have a ton of files so this is taking about 6 minutes. I used verbose mode during restart to see this happening. It never ...

Apple’s new desktop can be configured with up to 1TB of free space, which is notably less than the maximum of 2TB that the MacBook Pro and Mac Mini support.