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OWC’s October Garage Sale Full Of Tech Treats

Monday, October 18th, 2010 | Author: OWC Grant

It’s a hauntingly good time to get a tech treat for yourself while the kids are making plans to load up on free candy. That’s right, just for the ghoulish geeks out there, we unveiled our monthly garage sale over the weekend.

And just like a candy bowl left at a front door that says, “pls take one,” the goodies have been moving fast.

No need to scream though…with well over 200 great deals remaining, you still have time to find your favorite kind of treat.

Items are first come/first served, of varying limited quantities to what we have on hand. and must be ordered on-line via our website.

Here are just a few highlights of the available items that automatically count down and ‘vanish without a trace’ as they sell out:

PowerMac G4 up to Dual 1.25GHz from $89.99; iBook G4/1.33GHz for $199.99

Limited supply of Jabra BT125 BlueTooth Headset-NEW in Damaged Box for $19

Wireless 802.11g,n Routers and Adapter options from $10.00

Four Mac Software Titles up to 77% off normal retail while supplies last

Great Mac Memory Deals – 1GB from $14.50; 2GB from $30; 4GB from $60.00
Listings for Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and more

MacBook & MacBook Pro Batteries, New from $48.00

Laptop Carrying Cases, Battery Chargers, Docking Stations, & More

Nearly 30 Different 3.5″ Desktop Drives 500GB and up to 2.0TB from $37.50

Nearly 30 Different 2.5″ Laptop Drives 160GB and up to 1.0TB from
$34.99

OWC, Intel, Crucial, and Apple SSDs up to 512GB from $94.50

A selection of over 60 drive enclosure kits – starting from $7.99
2.5″, 3.5″, Serial ATA, IDE/ATA, Single Bay, 2-Bay, 4-Bay, RACK

Controller Cards for IDE/ATA & SATA (PCI, PCIe, Express34) from $17.50

SuperDrives from $22.50 for Desktops and Laptops, Blu-ray from $87.50

Don’t worry about gobbling up all this great gear and having your teeth fall out over high priced shipping. We offer freight specials from as low as $1.95 for delivery…and if you place an order of $179 or more, we ship it to you FREE.

And so that you can be first to howl at the full slate of deals next month, make sure to sign up for for our FREE Tips n’ Deals and Hot Deals newsletters!

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Welcome iPadders!

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Author: OWC Mike H.

OWC web site on iPadIt’s been only 5 days since the iPad launch, with one of those days being a holiday, and the iPad has quickly made an impact on OWC’s site traffic by accounting for 1.23% of macsales.com traffic. Granted, it’s not surprising that we got some iPad traffic as we’ve been part of the Mac community since 1988, but the amount of traffic we got so quickly was surprising nonetheless. One neat tidbit is that we got very light iPad traffic pre-launch as well, likely from reviewers and perhaps Steve Jobs himself – it’s possible right? Hi Steve.

Being the OWC Web Manager I’m always looking at the customer experience, and I must say Apple did a phenomenal job with Safari on iPad. Using the iPad you get the same full OWC web site featuring: memory for nearly every Mac made, external / internal storage, accessories, software, cables, batteries, adapters, tips, and install videos, for your Mac, iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad. All supported by OWC’s US-based on-site experts from our LEED Platinum Campus in Woodstock, Illinois powered 100% by our wind turbine.

Our videos worked without any modification… just press play! For all the hoopla over not being able to view Flash-based video, OWC customers weren’t impacted at all since we’ve used QuickTime friendly video codecs from the start for all our videos.  (Note to other web site managers: there’s other video formats out there… just re-export your vids, it’s not a big deal.)

On iPad the OWC web site just works, but now you get to experience OWC with the gorgeous iPad display with its superior font rendering, along with the future of computing that is Multi-Touch.

One caveat: anywhere we say “Click here” on the site… feel free to interpret that as “touch here” ;)

Of course we expect the iPad numbers to grow as more people are exposed to this paradigm of computing and we’ll welcome you all with open arms and a fully working web site.

Let’s iPad!

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On the Road to Macworld Expo 2010

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Macworld Expo 2010 is right around the corner. Although Apple isn’t going to be there, your pals from OWC and Newer Technology certainly are. We’ve been preparing for months, and we’re excited to be showing off all the nifty new OWC and NewerTech products we’ve released over the last few months.

  • The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini is a compact, portable version of OWC’s award winning desktop-sized solution line that is bus-powered, fanless and sports a “Quad” Interface.
  • The NewerTech NuPower High Capacity batteries for MacBook and MacBook Pro offer up to 10% higher capacity than the factory original.
  • The NewerTech Video Display Adapter allows you add up to four displays to your Mac via USB.
  • The NewerTech mini-DisplayPort Adapter series allows you to attach a DVI, HDMI or even VGA display to your mini-DisplayPort equipped Mac while offering better cabling and shielding than the standard adapter does.
  • With NewerTech’s Window Mount for the iPhone 3G/3GS, featuring an exact fit cradle and super vacuum adhesion, your iPhone 3G/3GS will remain securely in place in your car, boat or even on an airplane tray table!
  • The pocket-sized NuPower Charge & Sync+ lets you recharge your digital devices (including cell phones and digital cameras!) via a standard AC outlet or the built-in battery.
  • The NewerTech MAXPower SATA 6G PCIe Controller Card for you Mac Pro (and PC’s, too) – High Performance. No drivers.
  • The OWC Mercury Extreme SSD – we’re darn proud of our new internal 2.5” Solid State Drive. Sustained data transfer rates for both read and write speeds of over 260MB/s make our new SSDs among the fastest, if not the very fastest SATA I/II SSD on the market today. That’s why we’ve submitted it for Best of Show consideration.

But that’s not all…

We’ve also got a wonderful display where we show you how to integrate a Mac into your home theater system, info about our LEED Platinum Level “Green” facilities, the OWC Podcast booth, and—since His Steveness won’t be there to give one himself— “one more thing” in the form of a new OWC product. And, of course, we have show specials for the entire run of the show.

See you there!

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