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༄༄༄༄༄༄ August is nearly here.      August was named after Augustus Caesar (63 BC to 14 AD) , he was emperor when Jesus Christ was born prior to Tiberius who reigned during Jesus’ execution.    The word August means “impressive and respected.”    August has traditionally been a month of harvest but also the hottest month of the year.    The USA has no major holidays in August, but a collection of state observances like Colorado Day, Coast Guard Birthday, Barack Obama Day, American Family Day, Purple Heart Day, Victory Day, Hawaii Statehood Day, Bennington Battle Day, National Aviation Day, and many more.        August 1st is Lughnasadh, a pagan celebration of the harvest.    On the 15th, Catholics mark the Catholic Feast of the Assumption.    On the 16th and 17th Hindus observe Krishna Janmashtami which celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna as well as Ganesh Chaturthi which celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesh.    The Jain religion marks Paryushana, a festival focusing on fasting and forgiveness.       Every year in August I start thinking about places to camp as temps fall in the SouthEast. Looking up at the stars in August you will see the Perseids meteor shower in the third week of August featuring up to 60 meteors per hour.    So get outside and look up!    Out in the wild camping and riding my BMW and meeting new people, I should remember that it’s also Friendship Day on the 20th and International Forgiveness Day on the first Sunday.    The first Tuesday is “National Night Out” celebrated by people going out on their porches, turning their porch lights on in friendship and community, something we badly need in this time.      🌿🌷👒🌷🌸🍓🦋🐝💐🐣…      The M4 continues to make news from Apple as the new M4 MacBook Air is released and the M4 Mac Mini is still the best budget hardware Apple has put out this year IMHO.       Apple is also releasing new iPads, upgrading the Mac Studio to the M4 platform and iPadOS & iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, coming out this fall.      The M4 Mac Mini excels at tasks like web browsing, document editing, streaming, and light photo or video editing. With support for up to two 6K displays and a variety of ports, including Thunderbolt 4, HDMI, and USB-C, it offers flexibility for multitasking and connecting peripherals.    Apple's M4 Macs have ushered in a new era of performance and efficiency, and this June, the tech giant is poised to continue its momentum. The M4 chip, built on TSMC's 3nm process, offers significant improvements over its predecessor, including up to 50% more CPU performance and up to 4× more GPU performance.     In March 2025, Apple introduced the M4 MacBook Air, available in both 13-inch and 15-inch models. These laptops feature a sleek design, enhanced performance, and support for up to three external displays. The M4 MacBook Air also boasts an impressive battery life of up to 20 hours on a single charge.     Looking ahead, Apple is expected to unveil new MacBook Air models with M4 chips in early 2025, following its recent M3 chip upgrade. Additionally, the company plans to introduce a new iPhone SE, new iPad Airs, upgraded iPad keyboards, and entry-level iPads in the spring.     As June unfolds, Apple enthusiasts can anticipate further innovations and product releases that continue to push the boundaries of technology.         The good news about personal computers is that they remain generally reliable, but eventually every computer comes to a point where the technology built in 10 years ago is soooo slow compared to the latest devices that it becomes an issue.         Should you replace it? Is it time to get that new M4 Mac Mini, iMac or Core Ultra 9 Windows 11 laptop or desktop?         For a computer made in the last decade the _one_ part, next to the CPU, that makes it slow is that old tech spinning hard drive.        Spinning? . . . hard drives just a few years ago had spinning magnetic disks with needles like a record player that touchlessly reads and writes digital info in an analog fashion. Hard drives were stock data storage devices for over 50 years until about 2010. Apple slowly phased out its old tech drives through 2019. Now everything is SSD of some type often soldered to the logic board so you have to pay full price up front to get any reasonable storage and that gets expensive fast. These storage drives are so central to what your computer is and do that just by upgrading that one aging part; you can get a “new” computer without doing anything else.     Your display still looks good, the keyboard works and the CPU can keep up with whatever you throw at it.     But your Hard Drive is SLOW, Slow, slow . . . .     but what do I replace it with?      The last 20 years have seen incredible growth in disk tech, first SATA SSDs are solid-state devices with no moving parts that operate up to 100x faster than the spinning hard drive that came in your iMac, Lenovo, MacBook Pro or Windows 10 laptop.     Much of what a computer does starts with the storage drive, whether HDD or SSD. So much so that just replacing the HDD with an SSD will do away with the beachball and make that 15-year-old Mac feel like a new Mac, faster than it was when new, with the bonus of being shockproof (dropping your laptop no longer “kills” the Hard drive), use less power and lower temps which leads to a longer logic board life because heat destroys logic boards.         HDDs get slower as they age and eventually die along with your data: files, apps, photos and videos. <( ⸝⸝•̀ - •́⸝⸝)> You don’t have to replace the whole thing for $1200 or more, you can spend less than $400 to get a “new” Mac or PC with this simple upgrade. It’s a no-brainer upgrade.                         For upgrade options and pricing, text or call me at 404-692-2618 or email me at  joeldm@wwwebbit.com and I will get back to you, usually on the same day.            I offer local, in-home or office or here in my home office; I offer all types of computer repairs (displays, keyboards, hinges, spills, logic boards), upgrades and tech support at much lower rates than local computer repair shops.      I'm six blocks NorthEast of Ponce City Market and only 800 feet East of the Beltline.     It's a neighborhood operation and as simple as a phone call, text or email.           Whether you’re a small business, a school or a family with a house full of gadgets, I have your back.         So now with 75 degree days, Spring hints at more just around the corner, enjoy the warmer weather with a faster, safer, cooler, more reliable computer and network by calling me!            ༄༄༄༄༄༄