Standard Ryobi Battery pack as External Battery pack for Macbook or Laptops.

Hello,

We need your opinion! To anyone who owns Ryobi Tools from Home Depot, have you ever thought about using those batteries for the Macbook Pro?

Why pay for extra batteries when we have them in our garage? What's nice about this is that you can have unlimited battery life as a long as you have the ability to swap out the battery!

It's very simple, Two or One battery packs slide into the adapter, the magsafe cable plugs into your Macbook Pro.

Please let us know what you think. Who much would you be willing to pay for this?

Pat. Pend.
Thanks!
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Mikegyver exclusive: 2Tb Seagate wireless hard drive

We love the Seagate Wireless hard drive because we have the Retina Macbook Pro.  Problem the Retina Macbook Pro is that you can't carry all you data with you.  With this Wireless Hard drive, we can now get the best of both worlds.  Portability, speed and storage.

Because of this, we've decided on improving it with the Worlds only wireless 2TB hard drive.

It is currently listed on Ebay.  Check it out!

Mikegyverized Product Description
This 2 TB hard drive is powerful, easy-to-use, and perfect for providing copious amounts of surplus data storage capacity when you need it. This external hard drive is an outstanding device for adding more storage capacity to your system. Technophiles and do-it-yourselfers are amazed by the speed and performance of this 2 TB hard drive. Featuring sturdy construction, the Seagate Wireless Plus is highly durable, which means you are able to enjoy long-lasting trouble-free performance without worry of data errors or mechanical breakdowns. This 2 TB hard drive is a snap to install, which means you are able to quickly plug it into systems compatible with USB 3.0 and Wireless interfaces. With the vast storage capacity included on this external hard drive, you can preserve all your cherished digital camera pics, documents, and software programs without difficulty. In addition, the Seagate Wireless Plus helps you to backup tons of documents, data files, and videos in as little time as possible thanks to its impressive disk speed.

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REPOST: Magsafe 2 review (and the differences between them)

Magsafe 2 review

Apple has come out with the new Magsafe called "Magsafe 2" In reality, it has actually gone through 4 revisions.  But we guess the reason why it's considered the "Magsafe 2" is because the actual magsafe tip is narrower from top to bottom and a bit wider to accommodate the slim Macbook Airs and the New Macbook Pro retina laptops. The “L” shaped Magsafe is a direct replacement for the original Magsafe and will fit ALL MacBooks, EXCEPT the Magsafe 2 can ONLY be used for the new Macbook Pro Retina and mid 2012 Macbook Air.

Other then the new size of the "Magsafe 2" there is also another minor change in the voltage output of both the 85w model and the 45w models.  
The new 85w model is actually 20v at 4.25A.  The old was 16.5 - 18.5 at 4.1A.  The New model is set at 20v constant, while the old 85W is actually 60w, but powers up to 85w if the Macbook needs it.
The Macbook Air is 14.85v at 3.05A.   The old was 14.5 at 3.1A.  Not a whole lot different there.

For those who are planning on upgrading to the new "Magsafe 2", you can probably continue using the our old car adapters, but you might come up short of you are a high CPU user. All you'd need to do is purchase the just the  "Magsafe 2" cable and plug in the car adapter that you already have from us.  Since you just got a brand new Macbook, why no purchase a new car adapter since we will be shipping our adapters with the higher voltages with the "Magsafe 2" cables?
For our existing users, please contact us before you do however, most of you have adjustable voltage adapters and it could simply mean a different voltage selection.

Until next time, Happy charging and powering your Macbook Air and Macbook Retina display on the road (Retina display is gorgeous isn't it?)!

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Sharing adapters between different Macbook families.

Hello,

Recently we were asked about sharing a single adapter across MacBooks, ie. using the same adapter for both the Macbook Pro and Macbook Air.

Officially:  Two separate adapter such as our compact adapters or a universal adapter that can output two different voltages.
If you are using our universal adapter that can output multiple voltages, then all you need is two magsafe cables.  One for the MBA and one for the Macbook Pro.

Unofficially:  Just one adapter will work.  Choose the one for the Macbook.
Why?  The MBA max input voltage is 14.5v, the MBP is 18.5v.  The MBA can take 16.5v, and the MBP operates at 16.5v most of the time.  So 16.5v is a happy median between the two.  The only time you'll have issues is if your MBP is running full speed, then you'll need the 18.5v (85w) adapter.

The 85w apple adapter runs at 16.5 volts most of the time, it is only when you are running full speed, then it'll automatically step up to 18.5v.  If you have the MBA plug into the 85w, it'll only go up to 16.5v.

Now having said that, you still need to have separate cables if you are using the new MBA that has the new slim "T" style.  The new Magsafe2 are not compatible with the old style Magsafe cables.

Please see our Blog here about the different magsafe cables.

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REPOST: 12v Car, Boat, RV Mac Mini 2010 and newer how to...

Update 4-26-2016:  We have since suffered sort of a crash and cannot recover the photos below.  Instead, we're going to just post a picture that we just took from our Mac Mini stored on our shelf.
Hope this helps, as we recently received a email asking for wiring details.

Warning: The following steps are to be performed by those competent in soldering and electronics. The following step WILL very likely VOID your warranty. We will also take NO responsibility for any damages that you might incur.

Ok, so here’s how we did it, however we don’t like re-inventing the wheel (rather then to improve on it) we going to refer you to ifixit.com on disassembly first.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac-Mini-Model-A1347-Teardown/3094/1

Please do steps 1-14, and 22. Then come back here.

After you have disassembled your Mac mini, remove the power supply and re-assemble everything like so. Reconnect the power supply on the outside of the Mac Mini.

1) Cut the positive wires, and the Negative wires. Note the Middle wire:


2) Solder Pos wires together, and solder Neg wires together.


3) Find a wire and solder to it to make leads longer:


4) Solder the other end of the wire to a Panel mount DC jack:


5) Run it to the back of the Mac Mini where the AC cable used to plug in:


6) Find a Car cig plug (we sell them) and solder it to a 2.1mm plug:

7) Here’s how it looks fully assembled.


8) Plug in to the Mac Mini and you’re done!

NOTE: We tested with operating voltages of 10v all the way up to 15vdc, however we STRONGLY recommend you use a voltage regulator.  Please contact us.


For those who don’t want to do this yourselves, please go here

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