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See OWC During PhotoshopCAFE 2012 Event

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 | Author: OWC Grant

On Friday, August 3, OWC will be teaming up with our valued reseller B&H Photo to show off some of our latest SSD, Storage, and Accessory products for professional photographers at the 2012 PhotoshopCAFE event. The training workshop will be held at the historic Fine Arts Building in Chicago, IL –which is a stone’s throw from our headquarters in Woodstock, IL.

For those not familiar with this event, PhotoshopCAFE is a presenting the 2012 Photoshop Route CS6 Tour, sponsored by Adobe. This inspiring never-before seen tour, led by award-winning digital imaging expert Colin Smith, is presented as a full-day seminar that will turbocharge your digital photography skills. Attendees will leave the event with a solid grasp of Photoshop; as well as all the important new features of the CS6 release (note -you don’t have to be a CS6 user to attend and learn).

Additionally, OWC will be at the event showing off some of our latest and greatest USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt equipped storage and accessory products designed specifically for today’s digital photographer, such as: Article Continues…

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The Other World – Episode 54

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

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Random Mac Pro Memory Slot Utility Popup Returns in 10.8

Monday, July 30th, 2012 | Author: OWC Chris S.

A little over a month ago, OWC Andy told us about a phenomenon occurring with some Mac Pros, wherein the Memory Slot Utility window would appear at startup, even if a user hadn’t upgraded their memory recently. In the same article, he also described how to temporarily resolve the problem.

Unfortunately, “temporary” is the key term here; every time a software update was released, you’d have to re-do the process until Apple resolved the problem. It was hoped that this would be resolved with the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

As it turns out, the problem still exists with Mountain Lion. Once you install the new OS, the Memory Slot Utility once again makes unneeded appearances. Luckily, the resolution remains the same as outlined in OWC Andy’s original article.

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Power Nap Not Available to All Models Announced, but works with Aura

Friday, July 27th, 2012 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Whenever a new OS, there’s always a feature or two that a lot of people are really looking forward to. With OSX 10.8, lots of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with retina display (rMBP) owners were excited about the Power Nap feature, which enables software updates, backups, iCloud syncing and a number of other functions while the computer is set to “sleep.”

Unfortuantely, this feature wasn’t enabled from the start; apparently, a new firmware update is required. Apple has already released SMC updates for the 2011 and 2012 MacBook Airs and the 2012 rMBP update is “coming soon.” However, Apple has seemed to have quietly dropped support for the 2010 MacBook Air, even though it was initially announced as working with those models.

UPDATE 7/30/12: Apple released an SMC update for the rMBP, which adds Power Nap support.

We went ahead and tested it anyway and found that while the 11″ 2010 MacBook Air doesn’t support Power Nap, the 13” 2010 MacBook Air does.

While we were at it, we also tested the 2010 MacBook Air 13″, 2011 MacBook Air 11 & 13″, and the 2012 MacBook Air 11 & 13″ with our OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSDs (for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 models) and can confirm that Power Nap works as perfectly with our SSDs as they do with the originals.

UPDATE: More information regarding the 2010 MacBook Air 13″

We’ve now checked Power Nap capabilities on multiple 13″ 2010 MacBook Airs, and it seems hit-or-miss for compatibility. With those that it worked for, it did so without any extra changes. For those it didn’t work with, it just wasn’t enabled. We couldn’t find any rhyme or reason to why some worked and  some didn’t.

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Mountain Lion has Wi-Fi Issues

Friday, July 27th, 2012 | Author: OWC Mike H.

What would a new OS launch be without a few hiccups?

I experienced a Wi-Fi issue on my 2008 iMac wherein Mountain Lion’s Wi-Fi connection gets really slow… dial-up slow. Restarting the modem and Airport router didn’t fix it. Only plugging in direct via ethernet fixed the issue.

I checked online and there’s only a smattering of posts with people discussing the issue. Either it’s not widespread or people haven’t noticed it yet.

One post in an Apple Discussion mentions that they took their laptop to an Apple Genius and they fixed it, but they couldn’t see what the genius did. Maybe Apple will issue an update in the future, or maybe there’s something quick an easy that fixes it.

We’ll look into it more and let you know if we come up with anything to fix this Wi-Fi slowdown issue with Mountain Lion.

If you have info on fixing, or are experiencing a similar issue leave a comment below.

 

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