The macOS personal computer is extremely popular with creative, professional, and home users. Mac OS X (and all other mac editions) is built upon Unix, and a Mac computer is normally an incredibly reliable piece of hardware. However, even the…
MacBook Specifics: Model: A1706 EMC 3163 (fourth-generation) Storage: 256GB Onboard PCIe 3.0 (NVMe – Non-Volatile Memory express) A few days ago, we received a MacBook Pro at our lab. The customer complained that the laptop would not power on. They…
Updated 12/03/2019 At Gillware, we’ve had heard all the stories when it comes to computer failure; You dropped your MacBook or spilled coffee all over the keyboard You left your computer alone for a while and came back to a…
One of the most frustrating aspects of encountering a Macbook Pro black screen is that there are so many possible causes of the issue and, seemingly, just as many possible solutions. The underlying causes for a black screen, depending on…
In a recent series of articles on Gillware’s data recovery blog, our Mac data recovery expert Charles generously took some time out of his busy schedule in our data recovery lab to talk about Mac OS High Sierra and its brand-new file system, APFS (Apple File…
Our data recovery experts know computers backward, forward, inside and out. We have to. In this post, our Mac data recovery expert Charles talks a bit about the new file system introduced by Apple. Apple’s new file system for macOS High…
Our data recovery experts know computers backward, forward, inside and out. We have to. In this post, our Mac data recovery expert Charles talks a bit about some of the changes the new macOS High Sierra makes and what you…
Over the past two weeks, the infosec (information security) and Apple community have been shocked by the discovery that, according to research performed by Duo Labs across roughly 73 thousand Mac systems, updates to thousands of computers’ EFI firmware were…
The client in this iMac data recovery case came to us after their computer broke down. It wouldn’t boot anymore, and the client’s local computer repair technicians couldn’t do anything about it. All of their data was locked on an…
Our client here in this Macbook data recovery case was in trouble. Their Macbook had served them well for years—but now it was toast. They would turn the Macbook on, and it would greet them with a gray screen. It…
