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TechnicalGuy — Mon, 13 May 2019 20:45:05 +0800

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SSD Upgrade Problem!

TechnicalGuy — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:04:14 +0800

Hello all,

Recently I bought a Samsung EVO 850 SSD to upgrade my Macbook Pro Mid 2012 default HDD (running 10.10 Yosemite).

#1. So i open the backcover and change the SSD. then install fresh OS Sierra 10.12 using bootable USB and restore backup from my Time Machine after that.

#2. Everything works perfectly for the first day. On the second day, when I open my VMware fusion, my mac hang, beachball spinning and kernel panic crashed, auto restart went into recovery. No choice, so i reformat the SSD, reinstall fresh OS and restore backup from Time Machine again. i thought the culprit was the VMware fusion so i reinstall the latest version VMware fusion. Everything works perfectly fine for 2 weeks.

#3. After 2 weeks, out of sudden the Acrobat Reader prompt me to update. So I click "yes" as usual to update. then suddenly my Mac acting very slow... then the beach ball keep spinning, my CPU temp getting high to to 80c++. i waited for 15mins its still same. I unable to shut down my mac normally. so i force close my Mac by pressing the physical power button. When I try to turn on the PC again. I got a Prohibited/No Entry sign.

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#4. Since i have my backup, so i went into recovery mode and format the SSD again, but it have some error saying that I can't format my SSD. So I take out my SSD and put back my default HDD, everything run perfectly. So i put the SSD into external enclosure and verify & repair the SSD using disk utilities. Having some hiccups but was able to format it into Mac OS Extended (Journaled) , GUID, .

#5. So this time I using Carbon Copy Cloner app to clone my default HDD to the SSD. After completed, I shut down my Mac and replace the SSD to the internal SATA drive. My Mac able to turn on normally, so i was happily using as usual. But I realised alot of the app is not functioning, like my Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Excel etc.. So i reinstall a fresh copy of Chrome, it works perfectly after that.

#6. So i reinstall my app one by one. Then I realised the App Store is not working too, so i tried to search is there any link in Apple website i can download and Reinstall App Store, the answer is NO! Then out of sudden without doing anything, the colorful beachball is spinning (same as #2, #3) my CPU temp getting high to to 80c++. i waited for 20 mins its still same. I unable to shut down my mac normally. so i force close my Mac by pressing the physical power button. When I try to turn on the PC again. I got a Folder with (?) Question Mark.

Now I put back my default HDD and everything working perfectly fine as usual... really tired of trying and changing to SSD

Can anyone advise/ pin point what could be the issue? Did i do anything wrong?

Thanks for your time for reading.

Sifu [@wei] [@Mac Man @ LYF] can help me on this please?

I’ve tested over 100 headphones in the past year

TechnicalGuy — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:46:22 +0800

I’ve tested over 100 headphones in the past year, yet I keep coming back to this $30 pair

Last month I sang the praises of the Sony MDR-1A, a $300 pair of full-size headphones that’s stood out from the many pairs I’ve tested for being smooth-sounding, good-looking, and so very, very comfortable. They’re not the best, but they’re the ones I’d be most likely to buy.

That said, they’re $300 full-size headphones. Anything along those lines isn’t going to be all that portable. Sometimes, it’s good to have a pair of “beaters” on hand — cheap, secondary headphones you can stuff in a bag, toss on quickly, and wear on the go, without having to worry about busting your Very Nice Thing.

I’ve followed this setup for the past few months, and of the many inexpensive, beater-level pairs I’ve had lying around, the Xiaomi Mi In-Ear Headphones Pro have emerged as a personal favorite. Like the MDR-1A, they have a few clear flaws, but they still feel and sound better than I’d expect from a $30 earphone.

The most immediately impressive thing about the Xiaomis is their build. Looks matter less when a headphone is jammed in your head, but the smooth, aluminum finish here is just of a higher quality than the plastic you’ll usually find at this price. Despite that metal, they’re fairly lightweight, and their angled eartips are nice and soft. All of that’s made them a breeze to wear for hours at a time.

Beyond that, the Kevlar-infused cable has shown no signs of wear after several months of use, and it’s fitted with both a mic and three-button remote. The earpieces isolate plenty of noise, as you’d expect from an in-ear canal pair, and they don’t leak any of their own unless you’re playing at max volume in a quiet room.

The sound here isn’t as easy to recommend to everyone, but it suits my tastes. It’s one of the cheapest earphones to use separate drivers for treble and mids/bass, which is theoretically supposed to make every part of the signature particularly potent. In reality, the bass and low-mids run the show.

It’s not that the highs aren’t crisp or detailed — they are, and impressively so — it’s just that the lows are that massive. If a track emphasizes bass, it’s going to be big and bumping. If it doesn’t, the lower bits are still going to get a boost. What this means is that the Xiaomis are very fun with electronic, hip-hop, and poppier rock, and absolutely not for purists. When I’m not in headphone reviewer mode, that’s the stuff I go for, so it works.

To give you a better idea, I compared the Xiaomis to Apple’s EarPods, which are the closest thing most people have to beater headphones today. As expected, the tighter-fitting Xiaomis sounded much more aggressive, with deeper bass response, a wider soundstage, and more space to capture fine detail. That bass was boomier with more subdued tracks, but again, if you fit the same niche as me, you’ll probably enjoy how hard-hitting the whole thing is.

I’m not the first person to praise the Mi In-Ear Headphones Pro — reviewers from CNET, The Verge, and VentureBeat have shared similar sentiments. Try the RHA S500 if you’d prefer a brighter sound, or the Panasonic ErgoFit RP-TCM125 if you just want to pay as little as possible, but for $30, this is a higher-grade everyday companion than the price suggests.

Source: http://www.techinsider.io/best-cheap-in-ea...paign=buffer-ti

SpotLight / Flood Light

TechnicalGuy — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:28:41 +0800

Anyone bought/use this before??

Is that really bright?? Any shop that I can get this kind of Rechargeable Flood Light?

According to the specs, it can last 5-6hours. I doubt that..