Recent content by Fred Maxwell

As so many others have pointed out, they abandoned their core audience: Electronics hobbyists. Years ago, I talked to a buyer for Radio Shack, complaining that they stopped carrying a useful part. He explained to me that they dropped it because it was a slow seller. I never could get him to...

Because Apple is not required to use hardware features on devices that they do not supply and may not have tested. Both Intel and Crucial have sold SSDs in which there have been data corruption problems related to TRIM. So if Apple had enabled TRIM by default on those, customers could be...