Why Buy A Standard MacBook Pro Non-Retina?

My decision over which MacBook Pro to invest my hard-earned cash into took a bit of careful thought. I had to weigh out features versus cost versus being as future proof as possible since I want my investment to go as far as possible and give me the best bang for buck from Apple’s current offerings. In the end, portability made the choice of 13″ a given, but then the question remained, ‘retina or non-retina?’

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Possible Uses For A Home Server

In preparation for building ANBU, before forking out for what would start out as a budget build, I took a lot of different factors into consideration. In order to justify spending on new hardware, the biggest question I found myself asking is, ‘What are the possible uses for a home server?’ Not only did this help me decide whether or not I really needed to have one, but also what I could add to it in future to really get my money’s worth out of a modest home server.

HP Mediasmart
The HP Mediasmart Microserver – a popular alternative to building your own!

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Project Gandor (Mac Mini)

I’ll keep this little introduction brief for now and just give you a bit of back story about this little fella. This is Gandor, my early 2009 Mac Mini. He was bought a week after the early 2009 Mac Mini refresh from Apple directly in March 2009 and came with stock everything. On his first … Read more