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Xlr8yourmac goes offline, ending an era of DIY tinkering

If you know the site xlr8yourmac.com then this is a bad day. After close to three decades of Mac hardware reviews and support, the site appears to have shut down for good.

Text reads 'Accelerate Your Mac!' with a rocket-powered computer mouse and website address xlr8yourmac.com.
xlr8yourmac has closed down

I’ve probably only cracked open one Mac in my life, maybe added a video card twice, and haven’t touched external SCSI since using a Macintosh IIfx with the funky active terminator. Mike Wuerthele, my co-author on this piece, on the other hand has done things like “shove in more hard drives into a Mac Pro than was thermally and electrically wise” and is our Thunderbolt and external storage guy.

The site that helped us do this, the very hardware-focused xlr8yourmac.com has now gone offline, very recently. We reached out both to ask what has happened, and to express regret that such a long-standing and so very useful site is gone. And yesterday we found out that the email for the site is not taking emails either.

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