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Cyber Monday 1 Day Special on Charge & Sync+ adapter for nearly ANY portable device!

Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

chargeandsyncpluswiphoneThe NuPower Charge & Sync+ from NewerTech is the portable battery & charging solution for nearly ANY mobile device. Not only is it a portable battery that has a built in AC flip-plug for direct charging, but all three of its cables can be connected via a standard USB port for syncing various mobile devices as well.

Includes Dock Connector cable  for iPhones & iPod
+ Cables for mini-USB and micro-USB

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It fits in the palm of your hand with cable stowed neatly inside and the one model gives you a portable battery & AC charger + cables with sync/support for nearly any mobile device…digital camera, cellphone, gaming systems, and more you may have!

Normal price is $39.99 – Cyber Monday Special – $32.75! Similar products that offer far less functionality go for $50-80, so this is a great value that’s even better today only!

See ALL of our CyberMonday Specials here.

November 30th – A Very Important Day for the World.

Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

historyToday is a very important day.

The first Monday after Thanksgiving is commonly known as “Cyber Monday” and is the day that many online stores do a lot of their Holiday sales.

So, one may think we’d be touting all our holiday specials on the blog today. After all, it’s what you’d expect.

Sure, I could talk about the OWC Express enclosure blowout, but I did that last week and I hate to repeat myself.

I could talk about the highly-praised NewerTech Voyager Docking Solution and the bundles we offer with it, but that would barely be worthy to mention today. The same thing goes for the great specials we’ve got on OWC Mercury On-The-Go enclosures.

Normally, knocking nearly 2/3 off of the Lenspen VidiMax Ultra: Deluxe LCD / Plasma Screen Cleaning Kit would be worthy of talking about, but not today.

Even the free shipping we’re offering on orders over $150 can’t compare to the amazing significance today will hold in history.

No, my friends, today is a day of significance, hope, and glory, for today is the 40th Anniversary of the first appearance of “Mahna Mahna” by the Muppets on the Ed Sullivan Show. While there was a considerably more primitive version that appeared on Sesame Street earlier in the year, this was the rendition that really brought it into the spotlight, and was the version that most directly evolved into the most popular version from The Muppet Show in 1975.

This is such an important landmark in our history as a species, I couldn’t possibly bear to sully this important day with overt mentions of great deals.

I’ll leave that up to OWC Grant and hourly Tweets…just follow us on Twitter

OWC Express priced to move even faster!

Friday, November 27th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

SantaGlobeHello Readers, and happy Day-After-Thanksgiving to you!

As always, while most of the United States is recovering from an L-Tryptophan-induced slumber, we here at OWC are ready to help you with your holiday tech gift needs. This year, we’ve got something for you that we think you’re going to like.

We’ve got blowout prices for the already economical OWC Express 2.5″ Drive Enclosure, reducing the prices to as low as $9.99 for the white model.

While this price makes of one of the best USB bus-powered enclosure deals available even better, you still need a 2.5″ SATA hard drive to put in there. If you don’t have one already laying around, we’ve got some great “Express + Hard Drive” bundle offers – you can either put the new drive right in the enclosure, or you can replace the old drive in your MacBook, MacBook Pro or Mac mini and put the drive you took out into the Express. And those bundles have a little extra value in them as we include at  no cost a $5 value five piece toolkit to help you get the job done.

Either way you go, OWC can show you how to do it all yourself. Our highly acclaimed Instructional Series of videos can show you how to replace the drive in your computer, and our latest installment shows you how to install a drive (be it new or old) in the Express itself. As always, you can find those videos both in our Tech Center and on our YouTube channel.

Of course, this isn’t the only Black Friday special we have for you. You can find all our great post-Thanksgiving specials on this special page, as well as our every-day great prices throughout our site.

OWC’s Black Friday / CyberMonday Savers – Ready to Order NOW!

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

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Why wait until Friday to start your Holiday shopping? We couldn’t wait until Friday either to tell you about OWC’s Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal…so here they are posted and ready to order now. We’ve always got a great selection at a great price, but for this ‘special weekend’, we just had to tempt you with super deals on over 100 great products.

Some Highlights:

**FREE SHIPPING Available for ALL Orders over $150 shipping within the 48 Continental US**

Discounted Freight as low as $1.99 within the USA, and starting under $5 for International orders!

Acer 24” White LED Backlit 1920×1080 Display – $295.00

There is no lower price out there and this latest model from Acer offers performance and detail you expect from displays costing MUCH more. This display also has a built in USB2 Hub and Stereo Speakers. Features DVI & VGA connections. An “OWC Larry Showcase” product!

VidMax Ultra LCD/Plasma Cleaning Kit with special Carbon Pad – $12.50 or $7.50 w/LCD Purchase

This thing removes fingerprints, smudges, etc WITHOUT chemicals and is amazing!

2.0TB, 4.0TB, and 8.0TB External ‘DIY’ Bundles of 7200RPM Drives + External Enclosures from $169.00 After Rebate!

FireWire 800/400/USB2/eSATA Kits in single, dual, and quad drive configurations for Mass performance storage & Mass Savings!

320GB & 500GB 7200RPM 2.5” Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade Kits w/2.5” Enclosure & Toolkit from $85.00

Everything you need to install/upgrade and transfer your data & continue using your old drive too!

2.5” & 3.5” Hard Drive Enclosure Kits from as low as $9.99!

Serial-ATA Controller Cards (Mac & PC Compatible) from as low as $19.00

OWC USB to Video Display – $59.00

Add up to 4 additional displays to your Mac or 6 additional displays to your PC!  Plug & Play via USB – HDMI, DVI, and VGA supported.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (Full Retail 3-User)- $119.00

Parallels Desktop for Mac  - $49.00!

Run Windows on Mac – LATEST version 5 Release

500GB 7200RPM miniStack v2.5 FireWire 400+USB2 Storage w/Built in Hubs – $99.00

**Includes FireWire 800 to 400 Cable for the latest Macs too!

8X Blu-Ray Read/Write + Super-MultiDrive DVD+CD Read/Write Kits from $175.00

Keyboard Protectors and Macbook/Pro Protective Sleeves 75% off – From only $4.99!

Some New 27″ iMacs missing key features, such as power.

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

iMacProblemMany people who ordered one of the new 27″ iMacs (including many with the fancy-schmancy i5 or i7 processors) are turning on their brand new machines, only to find… that they don’t turn on!

Apparently, a number of the i7 iMacs (including one purchased by Engadget) are just flat out not booting. Apple’s support forums have quite a few complaints about 27″ iMacs either arriving DOA, having intermittent video problems, or having odd software glitches. This is, of course, in addition to the large number of people receiving their new 27″ iMacs with the lower left corner of the glass broken.

When we benchmarked the new iMacs, we didn’t have any of these problems, but judging by the number of reports on these, it’s a good chance that we were just lucky.

This brings to mind an old rule of thumb about hardware from Apple – you may want to wait until the second or third revision to make sure all the kinks are worked out. While it’s fun to have the latest and greatest, sometimes it’s easier (not to mention less expensive) to just upgrade the memory and hard drive in your current machine, rather than buy a whole new one.

Free iMac inner view desktop background from OWC

Friday, November 20th, 2009 | Author: OWC Michael

imac27desktopFor those of you who want to let your inner geek show, have we got the desktop background for you!

While we’ve been exploring potential ways to upgrade the hard drive in the new iMacs, our own OWC Jamie took these photos of the new machines with their screens removed to expose the electronic goodness found inside.  They make quite unique desktop pictures.

Or, you could use this as a static screensaver to discourage others from using your precious computer making them think your machine is down for maintenance.

The desktops are custom sized to the resolutions of the respective monitors:

21.5″ iMac   : 1920 x 1080

27″ iMac      : 2560 x 1440

To download, right-click on the links above and Choose “Save Linked File”

To install your desktop background, go to System Preferences (on the Apple menu) and choose Desktop & Screen Saver (in Personal): Desktop (control-clicking the desktop and choosing Change Desktop Background… from the pop-up menu will also get you there), then click Folder… (in the left panel) and select the folder in which you saved the picture. If the folder is not in the list, click the “+” in the lower left and navigate to the correct folder to add it. Click the picture in the right panel to display it as your desktop background.

$50,000 can buy a rare Apple.

Friday, November 20th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

applegiftDo you have an Apple aficionado that’s notoriously hard to buy for? Do you have an extra $50,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Well, you can do a number of things…

All of these are great gifts (even in considerably smaller quantities) but for the ultimate in Apple fandom, you may want to rotate your eyeballs on over to eBay, where someone is selling an Apple I computer, complete with original invoice, shipping box, and letter signed by His Steveness, himself. There’s no bids on it as of this writing, and the starting bid is at fifty grand, so get your checkbooks out for this ultimate in Apple collectibles.

You can ship it to me care of OWC if the holiday spirit is upon you. ;-)