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		<title>“Tough as Jens Voigt”</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/13219-tough-as-jens-voigt</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/13219-tough-as-jens-voigt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Chris S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, we like to keep a close eye on the Twitterverse (you can find us at @macsales) and, occasionally find OWC as a topic of discussion. Well, this morning, Twitter user @maddogmedia posted the comment “I&#8217;ve been using OWC drives for years, externals and internals. They&#8217;re nearly as tough as Jens Voigt.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CES 2012 Rewound, Recapped, and Reviewed</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/13184-ces-2012-rewound-recapped-and-reviewed</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/13184-ces-2012-rewound-recapped-and-reviewed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Grant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second year at CES was a big success and while you may have read other sources’ accounts of the show, I thought you might (since you likely are a regular reader and interested in all things OWC) like a summary from our perspective. Now, if you’ve never been to a show of this magnitude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year from OWC!</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/13017-happy-new-year-from-owc-2</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/13017-happy-new-year-from-owc-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of you who want to get those great OWC products you got for Christmas set up before the new year (or to get more stuff, because we can always use more) will be glad to hear OWC staffers will be here for our normal hours on Saturday, December 31, to answer your tech questions or place your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Drive Supply: We&#8217;re not quite in the clear yet.</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12944-hard-drive-supply-were-not-quite-in-the-clear-yet</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12944-hard-drive-supply-were-not-quite-in-the-clear-yet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been another development in our ongoing coverage regarding how the flooding in Thailand has been affecting the hard drive industry. With the waters receding and the supply chains starting to open back up, the prices on drives have started to level off. We were expecting them to return to pre-flood pricing somewhere around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Minute Shoppers Rejoice!</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12937-last-minute-shoppers-rejoice</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12937-last-minute-shoppers-rejoice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Laura</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The OWC elves, I mean, employees are all working twice as hard to make sure no order is left behind this holiday season! Since we understand how quickly ‘Eve’s’ tend to sneak up, we’re here to make sure it’s not to late for us to help all your holiday wish lists come true too! Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in creating an OctoCore Mac Pro – A Brief Interlude</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12761-adventures-in-creating-an-octocore-mac-pro-%e2%80%93-a-brief-interlude</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12761-adventures-in-creating-an-octocore-mac-pro-%e2%80%93-a-brief-interlude#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OctoCore]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Considerations in Application of a GeoThermal Heat Exchange for Environmental Comfort Following the Upgrade of a MacPro1,1 with Two Over-Clocked Intel X5350 Engineering Samples that Necessitated the Addition of a Water Cooling System Part Trois or- “Everybody Loves it When the Fat Lineman Makes a Touchdown” By Robert Bruce Campbell, DO (Sorry for the delay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OWC Ties for First Place in TUAW “Best of 2011” Poll &#8211; With OWC</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12871-owc-ties-for-first-place-in-tuaw-%e2%80%9cbest-of-2011%e2%80%9d-poll-with-owc</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12871-owc-ties-for-first-place-in-tuaw-%e2%80%9cbest-of-2011%e2%80%9d-poll-with-owc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Spotlight]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About a week and a half ago, we asked you to nominate your favorite OWC product for The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s “Best of 2011” awards poll. Well, with your help, we got not just one, but two products nominated: The Data Doubler and our Mercury 6G SSDs. While that was certainly an honor, we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science’s Evidence of “God Particle” Still Agnostic</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12836-science%e2%80%99s-evidence-of-%e2%80%9cgod-particle%e2%80%9d-still-agnostic</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12836-science%e2%80%99s-evidence-of-%e2%80%9cgod-particle%e2%80%9d-still-agnostic#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Chris S.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[boson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CERN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higgs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The science world was all atwitter last night about today’s announcement from CERN. Had the Higgs boson, the yet-to-be-observed subatomic particle thought by some to endow other particles with mass (prompting the nickname of “God Particle”), finally been found? Well&#8230; kind of&#8230; Today’s announcement said that CERN’s ATLAS experiment showed a statistically suspicious increase in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for TUAW&#8217;s Best of 2011 Products</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12773-vote-for-tuaws-best-of-2011-products</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12773-vote-for-tuaws-best-of-2011-products#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Unofficial Apple Weblog is currently collecting nominations for their TUAW Best of 2011 Awards. We were quite tickled when even in their post asking for nominations they first mused, &#8220;Will one of OWC&#8217;s fast SSDs take home the award?&#8221; With your help, our loyal customers, we think that is a great possibility. However, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand Hard Drive Production Resuming</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12766-thailand-hard-drive-production-resuming</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12766-thailand-hard-drive-production-resuming#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve finally got some positive news amongst the dire supply conditions brought on by the Thailand floods; Western Digital has resumed its hard drive production in Thailand. According to a press release on the WD Web site, the company restarted production of hard drives in one of its buildings on November 30, one week ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a 240GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12755-win-a-240gb-mercury-electra-6g-ssd</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12755-win-a-240gb-mercury-electra-6g-ssd#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody loves a chance to win something; if they didn’t, Wheel of Fortune would be little more than a spelling test followed by a look through a Sears catalog. Once you add prizes, though, things get much more interesting &#8211; and that’s where the folks at TweakTown come in. You see, they’re giving away one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Chance to Vote for OWC</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12743-last-chance-to-vote-for-owc</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12743-last-chance-to-vote-for-owc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Chris S.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we’re in the final stretch for this year’s “Visit Me at CES” video contest. Voting ends today, so if you’re waiting until the last minute to vote for us, you’d better act now! And for those who have already voted for us &#8211; you can go ahead and vote for us again! All you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand Flood Update: It May Be Longer Than We Thought.</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12680-thailand-flood-update-it-may-be-longer-than-we-thought</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12680-thailand-flood-update-it-may-be-longer-than-we-thought#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We know that, to some, we seem to be talking about the Thailand situation an awful lot. However, since the flooding has affected hard drive production, that impacts the entire industry and we figure it’s better to let you know what’s happening, so you can make the best purchase decisions for your storage needs. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Drive Shortages &#8211; Where Is This Going?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12595-hard-drive-shortages-where-is-this-going</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12595-hard-drive-shortages-where-is-this-going#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Larry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macsales.com/?p=12595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago, I thought the Thailand/hard drive situation was bad and had worst-case scenarios in consideration. A week later and the worst of the worst-case didn&#8217;t line up with what was becoming reality. It seems like there may be some improvement in drive supply by mid-December, but it&#8217;s still disastrous and supplies are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand Floods &amp; The Resulting Consequences</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12550-thailand-floods-resulting-consequences</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12550-thailand-floods-resulting-consequences#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: the recent flooding situation in Thailand and the imminent hard drive shortage has many of us concerned, as approximately 40-50% of the world&#8217;s hard disk drives are manufactured in the affected areas. With production halted, suppliers and customers alike are worried about the impact this may have on hard drive availability, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OWC Remembers Our Veterans</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12535-owc-remembers-our-veterans-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC NewsFeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veterans Day is for thanking all those who have served honorably in the military during times of war and during times of peace. We here at the OWC Blog (and, indeed, the entire company) would like to take the opportunity to gratefully acknowledge our veterans for serving our country and helping to preserve the freedom we all too often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Time To Vote Again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12515-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-vote-again</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12515-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-vote-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Chris S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time last year, we asked you to vote for our submission in the “Meet Me at CES” video contest. Well, it’s that time again, and though the name has changed slightly (now it’s “Visit Me at CES”) the premise is the same: We need your votes. Fortunately, helping us out is really easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand Floods Affecting Hard Drive Availability &amp; Prices &#8211; UPDATE</title>
		<link>http://blog.macsales.com/12390-thailand-floods-affecting-hard-drive-availability-prices-update</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macsales.com/12390-thailand-floods-affecting-hard-drive-availability-prices-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OWC Chris S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, we told you about how flooding in Thailand may affect hard drive prices and availability. One week later, things aren’t looking so good. We mentioned that Western Digital’s Thailand plants are mostly underwater from the flooding. Those two plants produce about 60% of WD’s drives. Last quarter, WD produced about 54 million drives, [...]]]></description>
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