Beginner’s Guide To Upgrading Mac Memory

As technology has evolved with dizzying speed in recent years, one thing that’s not changed is the huge importance of RAM, or Random Access Memory, to the performance of computers.

RAM is where a computer holds information while it works with it. Data is read from the hard drive, but processors are capable of computing that data far faster than it can be read from, or written to, a moving drive.

So information is read from a hard drive into RAM from where the CPU can access it with lightning speed, making using your Mac as fast and responsive as you expect. RAM has no moving parts and so can transfer data very quickly.

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Firmware Tweak Gives Root Access Back To G1 Owners

That hilarious constant-root-access bug that shipped with the G1’s Android wasn’t just a security flaw; to some, it was a valuable tool. The guys at XDA have brought it back, if you want it.

The hack requires downgrading your firmware to either the RC27 or RC9 images and connecting to the handset with telnet. The procedure is actually quite simple, especially if you’re the kind of person who’ll get any utility out of root access on Android.

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