I’d like to tell you the story of how I turned a great computer into an incredible computer. While I spend my days helping our loyal OWC customers get the most out our excellent computer upgrades and accessories, I spend my free time working and playing on my home-built gaming PC. I’m what is generally referred to as an enthusiast. I spend a lot of time and money building and tweaking my computers to squeeze the most performance I can from the components, giving myself the best possible computing experience. I have an overclocked i7 quad-core processor, 12GB of overclocked RAM, and an ATI Radeon 5870 video card (I’ll be adding a second 5870 soon). Article Continues…
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OWC SSD Turns A Great Computer Into An Incredible One
Friday, November 5th, 2010 | Author: OWC Stephen
Changing the Face of (Mac) Gaming
Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Author: OWC Nick
Good news, everyone! Gaming is about to make a surge back to the Mac! “How’s that?” I hear some of you asking, fearful only bad news can follow that line. Well, the answer lies in the helping hands of Valve and its online service, Steam.
The Press Release from Monday confirmed what had been rumored for the past week in gaming circles; Valve will be natively supporting Macs — not emulating! — alongside Windows with all of its own game releases from here on out. Most notable of which will be a simultaneous Mac and Windows release of Portal 2 this holiday season.
If you’re wondering why Steam should be considered a big deal, then you should know that it is the most successful digital distribution system in PC gaming — estimated to be about 70% of the digital distribution games market according to research completed by Stardock.
OK, so Macs will be getting a few more quality games, is that all? Not by a long shot. Here’s the better news, from Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve, “…we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play.”
Furthermore: “…Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients.” Article Continues…
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$10,000 Gift Card, Zombies, & Slow Cars – OWC Radio #16
Friday, February 26th, 2010 | Author: OWC Tim
Ah, the joys of owning a new camera. Tim Robertson talks about his new Sony DSLR 300K, iTunes $10,000 gift cards, Plants vs. Zombies, Mac and iPhone gaming, and much more.
Category: OWC Radio
Use your OWC drive with your video game system.
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.
No, it’s not a super-secret way to copy or store copyrighted games, nor is it some crazy way of controlling your games using the hard drive, despite what the image to the right would suggest.
Instead, ace support tech and avid gamer OWC Duane has put together a fabulous walkthrough for setting up your OWC or Newertech USB 2.0 External or Portable Storage Solution as a media drive for your XBox or Playstation 3, allowing you to play back movies and music without having to network it to your home computer.
Accessing your media this way not only offers convenience, portability and speed, but it also offers significant energy settings; a single hard drive uses considerably less energy than a whole computer.
If this sort of thing sounds like it’s right up your alley, check out the full article on our main site.
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