Take my word for it and get the Arris/Motorola Surboard 6183 it's around a 100 bucks on Amazon
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:00 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > In looking at the back of the NetGear modem/Router there is no COAX > connection, which is how TimeWarner brings connectivity TO the modem…outbound > is through ethernet or wireless but at first blush this unit won’t work. > > John > > > > <PastedGraphic-3.png><PastedGraphic-5.png> >> On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 2:15 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My 2009 MacBook Pro (with the removable battery) is needing a new drive, >>> it’s slower than watching corn grow. I want to get a new Macbook but will >>> wait until the new models come out later this year. My daughter is wanting >>> a laptop so I might be able to fix this one for her to use. >> >> That’s still a pretty capable machine, even seven years later. I still use >> one as my main machine for writing and email because it’s got a good >> display, nice keyboard and dual-core 2.4 GHz processor. The newer machines >> often seem faster, not because their hardware is so much better, but because >> of the SSD drives. >> >> >>> Any suggestions as to what is a good brand, where to purchase? >> >> Pretty much any 2.5” SATA drive should work. My solution, a little more than >> a year ago, was to compromise with a Seagate ST1000DX hybrid drive. This is >> a 1 TB spinning drive with a built-in 8 GB solid-state cache. It’s kind of >> like Apple’s Mechanical/SSD Fusion drive combo. The firmware on the drive >> watches which files you use most often and keeps them in the cache, so it’s >> pretty fast loading the programs you always use — after it learns what they >> are. You can pick up such a drive for $75 or so. >> >> A year ago, SSDs were still pretty expensive, but they’ve come down in price >> so much over the last year, that I’d probably go with one of those now. >> Before buying one, do a little research to get a drive supported by the TRIM >> in El Capitan and learn how to turn it on. Otherwise, the performance of >> your SSD will degrade over time. >> >> Don’t expect spectacular SSD performance off that machine because it’s got a >> slower SATA bus than the newer machines. You may be able to improve it a lot >> by making sure you’ve installed Apple’s firmware patches which raised the >> link speed from 1.5 Gb/s to 3.0 Gb/s. It made a real difference on my >> machine. The upgrades weren’t available on all the 2009 machines. >> >> L^2 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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