13-inch MacBook Pro Solid-State Drive Service Program

Posted on March 10, 2019March 8, 2019 by Tim Hannon in Apple, Companies, Hardware, Macintosh

Do you have a 13-inch MacBook Pro that you bought between June 2017-June 2018? If so, please see if your Mac is affected by Apple’s service program which they introduced in November 2018. Apple has determined that a limited number of 128GB and 256GB solid-state drives (SSD) used in 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) … Read more

Use The Recovery Partition to Securely Erase Your Mac’s Mechanical Hard Drive

Posted on November 23, 2014April 29, 2021 by Tim Hannon in macOS (formerly OS X), Security/Privacy, Software

Are you retiring an older Mac that has a mechanical, spinning hard drive and its running macOS version 10.7 or higher? If so, here are instructions on how you can securely erase the Mac’s hard drive before you donate your Mac or sell it.