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Apple
This page was created as a place holder for documents that pertain to Apple products.
December, 2023.. Apple product users have been coming to the Sun City Computer Help Center for all the years I have been creating content for this wiki. I do not know if or where, the lessons learned by the volunteers that provided them help, are retained. So, I am going to add some items that I learned during the process of upgrading a donated macbook pro to Sonoma (14.2). The macbook is 13 years old and well past official Apple support.
During my Help Center years I have upgraded a few macs to SSD (Solid State Drives). On at least one occassion it was not easy to access the “inside” of the computer.
The simple stuff…. Knowing “if” a mac is experienceing issues with a hard drive can be “hard”. The tool I use on WIndows, gsmartcontrol, is easy to acquire and quick to install, on Windows. Using the “same/similar” tool on a Mac requires installation of “gsmartcontrol” from Macports or HomeBrew. However, the command line tools from smartmontools.org are “adequate”.
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