Category Archives: Hardware

MacBook Pro vs. Ash Cloud

Or “Things you don’t want to see when tracking the delivery of your shiny new toy” Location Date Local Time Description KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 04/18/2010 3:20 P.M. PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE / RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY SHANGHAI, CN 04/18/2010 5:55 A.M. NATURAL DISASTER 04/18/2010 5:21 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), [...]

Xbox 360 Battery Pack Disassembled

I’ve had an official Xbox 360 ‘Play & Charge’ kit for a year or so now, and the battery life has slowly but surely dropped to nothing over that time. I decided to take it to pieces to see if I could figure out what was up with it. As you can see from the [...]