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 until 11:00pm CST on Friday, December 31, to answer your tech questions or place your last-minute orders.
OWC will be closed Saturday, January 1, for New Year’s Day, then will go back to our regular schedule on January 2.
We’re getting close to the end of the year, but savvy US taxpayers still have time to order equipment and take advantage of the Section 179 depreciation deduction.
Section 179 allows a taxpayer to elect to deduct the cost of certain types of property on their income taxes as an expense, rather than requiring the cost of the property to be capitalized and depreciated. Taking this deduction isn’t mandatory, but if you don’t take it for the year the equipment is purchased, you don’t get another chance.
The practical upshot of all this is that if you order by 11:59 Friday night, you can get the benefits for your 2010 taxes. You save now with all our Holiday Specials, and you get a break in your taxes in April. You get to save twice!
Of course, that’s an extremely simplified description; we’re Mac experts, not tax experts. For more in-depth information, we highly recommend talking to your tax advisor.
As the year winds down, we take the opportunity to look back over the last 12 months or so to see just how far we’ve come and give ourselves hope for the future. Looking back at 2010, we can sum it up as a year of innovations and advancement, both for OWC and for the Mac platform.
Obviously, the innovation from Apple that had the greatest impact on the computer industry as a whole was the introduction of the iPad. End users flocked to it; other companies tried to emulate it. Reviewers alternately praised it as the “next big thing” or derided it as being “a really big iPod Touch.” Hundreds of cases and accessories sprang into existence in to help you make the most of the new device. Whether you liked it, hated it or really didn’t care, you couldn’t deny that Apple made a big splash with the iPad.
The iPhone 4, with its high-resolution Retina Display and video chat capabilities was a huge seller, but its success was tainted somewhat by antenna problems. After receiving a lot of flak for dropping calls via the “grip of death”, Apple rectified the problem somewhat with a free “bumper” program.
That wasn’t Apple’s only stumble during the year. In November, a “mysterious” announcement sent the rumor mills into overdrive by promising a day that we’d “never forget.” The result was a somewhat anticlimactic announcement of The Beatles catalog being available on iTunes. While this was something many music fans had been looking forward to, most agreed that the amount of hype given to it was far too much.
It was a bit of a downer for a year that had started so well. OWC, on the other hand, started strong and got stronger as the year progressed. Article Continues…
Other World Computing announced today it has expanded the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 desktop hardware RAID storage line storage capacity to 12TB by utilizing four 3TB high performance hard drives in the Qx2’s four hot swappable drive bays. In addition to offering massive storage/backup capacity in a desktop sized footprint, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 features a “Quad Interface” of FireWire® 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports and four selectable Hardware RAID settings – 0, 1, 5, 10 – for high speed, highly reliable Plug and Play use with Macs and PCs.
Four Prosumer Models Starting At $479.99
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Well, the Holiday gift-giving rush is finally over, and we’re betting that somewhere between the toad skin coin purse and your menagerie of Chia Pets, there was a nifty tech gadget or two under your tree. Or, maybe you bought yourself a little treat as a reward for making it through the holidays and keeping most of your sanity intact.
Whatever the case, it’s a pretty good guess you gave or received some nifty new gear within the last few weeks. I sure know we did…
What about you guys? What kind of cool gadgets did you acquire or give over the holiday season? Let us know in the comments below.
It has been over 6 months since I last told you about my Lola and I feel that It is my duty to share some of her newest experiences with you. Time just flies when you are having fun and let me tell you, Lola has had some fun.
She has been driving pretty fast as of recently! You could even say Jimmie Johnson fast when using an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD drive. Only the fastest and most reliable Solid State Drive on the market today will suffice for Lola’s data storage and backup needs.
At this point, I must say that Lola is pretty spoiled. She has taken over my credit cards. I am sure that some of you can relate. Lola is loaded with so much stuff that she now has her own section in my home.
She recently demanded that I take better care of her. Always dragging her to and from work and anywhere else she demands.
So, as always I quickly shopped and purchased the Case Logic Laptop Sleeve. It has everything that a MacBook Pro like Lola would want and need. Form fitted, suede, zippers, durability and a slimline design. Even a 25 year warranty. 25 years! I mean, really!?!
Of course, It did not stop there.
Lola wanted more protection from all of the bumps and bruises of travel. I continued to shop and got her the Matias Laptop Armor. It is stylish, rugged and has a silver aluminum slim design.
There is that word “slim” again. Lola just loves slim.
For all you last-minute Santa’s Helpers, OWC staffers will be here until 7:00pm CST on Friday, December 24, to answer your tech questions or place your last-minute orders.
OWC will be closed Saturday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday, then will go back to our regular schedule on December 26.
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Net Neutrality and the FCC. Are we looking at a new era of computing where there is an additional charge for everything we do online everyday? Or will this finally be the push for broadband internet for everybody? Join us as we discuss the pros and cons as well as muse about Apple’s upcoming product lines and a variety of additional topics.
