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Holiday Sales Continue on Cyber Monday

Monday, November 28th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Gifts from OWC - Always the right choice!Last week, we posted on our Black Friday/Holiday specials and, quite frankly, the response has been tremendous. We’ve had record numbers of orders, which tells us that a lot of people are finding those deals to be pretty good. Well, we’re going to bump it up a notch and throw a few more deals into the mix.

Rather than a slow, building tease where we show you some neat stuff before trotting out the big mind-blower, we’re going to start out with the special that a lot of us around the office are excited about: We’re offering Drive Genius 3 for up to 74% off Retail Price with the purchase of a qualifying OWC/Newer Technology Storage Solution or enclosure/DIY Kit!

This is actually pretty exciting. Drive Genius 3 allows you to maintain and monitor your drive’s health, alerting you to possible issues before they become unmanageable. You can even use the Drive Slim feature to remove duplicate files and perform other actions that can reduce the amount of space taken up on your drives. With the current hard drive shortage, you’ll want to keep your current drives in tip-top shape, and Drive Genius 3 is the tool to help you do so.

Speaking of hard drives, we’ve got some great new deals on bus-powered portable drives. Starting at $79, these drives are an affordable, convenient solution to your storage needs while on the go.

Over the years, we’ve shown that adding more memory to your computer gives you the most performance per dollar than any other upgrade. Now, with our special holiday pricing, there’s no reason not to max out that new computer (or, for that matter, the one you already have) and keep the holiday joy going all year long.

Of course, these aren’t the only great deals we’ve got for you; we have nearly three hundred different items on our Holiday Specials page. You’d better act fast, though – with the record numbers of people ordering this year, you’ll want to make sure you get your great deal before supplies run out!

 

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Gifts for Grads – The OWC Way

Thursday, June 17th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S.

There are two major gift-giving occasions in June: Fathers’ Day and graduation from various levels of education. This has led to the “Dads and Grads” phrasing heard in just about every marketing platform out there. As cliché as it is, though, there’s probably someone out there looking for gift suggestions for one or both of these groups. Since we covered gifts for “Dads” earlier in the month, let’s look at “Grads” this time around.

High School Grads

For many high school graduates, college is right around the corner. What better way to get your grad started on the right track to their higher education than by making sure their most important educational tool—their computer—is in top form? Here’s a short list of great gift ideas to make undergraduate life a little more bearable.

  • An External Hard Drive - Picture this: it’s the night before your Organic Chemistry paper is due—a paper that’s worth 51% of your grade. You put the final touches on it and have now brought your laptop to the computer lab in order to print. Except, rather than the normal screen and power-up sounds, all you get is “whirr…click…whirrrrrr…click”. That’s a dead hard drive, and it’s not very likely that you’re getting your paper back from it. Good thing you have an OWC External Storage Solution. As long as you’ve backed up (and with an important paper like this, you better have!) your file is safe and sound.
  • More memory - Let’s face it, college students are invariably broke, so buying the latest and greatest computer every year is probably not within budget. Dollar-for-dollar, upgrading the memory still remains the best way to get more performance out of the computer they already have. For a fraction of the price of a new computer, a memory upgrade a simple memory upgrade can breathe new life into their current machine.
  • Software - having a computer is great, but without software, it doesn’t do a whole heck of a lot. Microsoft Office seems to be pretty much the de facto software package in use for document transfer, but you may also want to consider Apple’s iWork suite for more Mac-like document creation. Utility software, such as Drive Genius can help when your computer starts acting funny at inopportune times, and if your student is going to be working in an environment where Windows is mandatory, you may want to look into compatibility software, so they can run their Windows applications alongside their Mac ones or just use their Mac-formatted drives on a PC.
  • Accessories - Of course, all studying and no fun makes for a pretty dull college experience. Odds are, your student either has, or will have, an iPod, an iPhone, or an iPad. Fortunately, there are a myriad of accessories to protect or enhance their iDevice, helping them get the most enjoyment out of it as possible.

College Grads

While pretty much all of the gifts suggested above will also work for the college graduate (especially those doing post-graduate work), you may also want to consider a gift certificate for some decent food. Between all those student loans and the fact that they’ve likely just spent the last 4+ years living on little more than ramen noodles and canned beans; they could probably use a good meal.

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OWC Hot Deals Blast Highlights

Friday, October 9th, 2009 | Author: OWC Grant

priceboomWhile NASA’s LCROSS mission perhaps fizzled to the naked eye, I did catch some highlights in OWC Larry’s recent Hot Deals Blast that might lift your spirits. And if you aren’t a subscriber to the Blast, you can do so for free by visiting the OWC Resource Center. “What’s a Hot Deals Blast?” you might be asking…well the official description from our site is:

Some deals are of such limited quantity or just simply too hot to wait for our next Tips n’ Deals emailing. The OWC Hot Deals Blast goes out 5-7 times a month and subscribers are sure to have the first shot at new specials we put online. This is the list to be on to make sure you’ve got the first shot at new deals, clearance specials, etc!

That said, two product mentions jumped out at me as being very useful. The first is how you can maintain your Mac like a Genius and perform Recovery like a Pro.

Prosoft Drive Genius should be a standard part of every Mac user’s software library. For $59.99 (vs. $99 retail) or as low as $25 with a qualifying storage solution, it’s a great deal + an application that can pay for itself. This is the same utility that the Apple Store Genuis Bar uses for the ‘Yearly Tune Up’ service that is part of the ProCare service they offer. Instead of paying them to do it, you can keep your Mac running great and right from the comfort of your own home. Already fully updated for Apple OS 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ – this utility suite includes:

Drive Slim – locates duplicate, identical files and allows these space wasting dupes to be deleted and can put aliases in their place so no problem finding the single file that remains.

DeFrag – Over time, as you write new files, update existing files, delete files – files and file groupings on your hard drive become fragmented. As a result of fragmentation, your hard drive has to move the read/write heads to multiple locations when reading and/or writing and that slows things down. By optimizing your drive with the Defrag utility, best data access performance is then restored.

Repair – fixes minor corruption/file system issues; Shred – DoD compliant erasure of data from unused portion of drive/after file deletion, etc.; Clone – make a bootable clone of your entire drive on another, for backup or when upgrading to a new drive; Integrity check – make sure all systems are ‘go/green’ – identify those that are not; And more!

Prosoft Data Rescue is the utility that can save you big time should a major problem occur. Also available for $59 (vs. $99 retail), this utility is tops for recovering data. From accidental file deletions to catastrophic drive directory corruption and even with a drive that is failing -this is the utility up to the task of bringing back your critical files. Somethings even a backup isn’t going help you with – and before paying the high price for someone else to recover your priceless data, more often than not – as long as the drive is still seen (even if it won’t mount), Data Rescue will save the day.

Keep your Mac tip-top + be prepared – Both Drive Genius + Data Rescue together for $109.99 (vs. $198 Retail)

The second item that caught my eye was how you can power your mobile Mac with genuine Apple MagSafe Power Adapters. We’ve got ‘em used or refurbished, fully tested, and backed by a 90 day OWC Warranty starting at $42.75 in the following models:

Apple Genuine 85 Watt Magsafe AC Power Adapter for all Apple MacBook Pro 15″ and 17″ Models

Apple Genuine 60 Watt Magsafe AC Power Adapter for all Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro 13″ Models

Apple Genuine 45 Watt Magsafe AC Power Adapter for all Apple MacBook Air Models

If you can use a spare adapter, or need a replacement for one gone bad – this saves you over $30 vs. the cost of a new adapter. NOTE: it is important to purchase the adapter model that is correct for the laptop model you have/plan to use it with. Using a lower wattage adapter than correct for your machine will impact charging time while a higher wattage than specified can reduce the lifetime of the battery.

One thing to remember on all of the above prices…those are the everyday prices. There are additional savings to be had if you are a Hot Deals Blast subscriber…so join today!

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