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OWC Announces Industry’s First 128GB Memory Upgrade Kit for 2009 to Current Apple Mac Pro Offers Double The RAM Versus Factory Maximum Offered

Friday, January 6th, 2012 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today its MaxRAM Certified Triple-Channel Memory Upgrade Kits now includes the industry’s first 128GB memory upgrade kit for Apple Mac Pro 8-Core and 12-Core Nehalem and Westmere** models. These new 8 x 16GB per module matched kits are Fully Tested, Qualified, and MaxRAM Certified for the most demanding applications and backed by OWC’s Lifetime Advance Replacement Warranty.

OWC ‘MaxRAM’ 16GB Module Based Kits Offer Up to Double The Factory Maximum RAM:

Apple Mac Pro Quad-Core and 6-Core Nehalem/Westmere** ‘MaxRAM’ 48GB Option

• 48GB (3x16GB) PC3-10600 ECC DDR3 Dual Rank 1066 & 1333MHz Matched Modules from $747.99

Compared to current factory maximum 32GB option costing $1,775.00, OWC’s kit offers 33% more memory for up to $1,028 lower cost (72% less cost per GB).

**Current Mac OS X versions are unable to utilize more then 96GB RAM due to an operating system limitation. 128GB can be fully utilized by a 2009-2010 Mac Pro if running Bootcamp with 64-bit versions of Windows XP and later as well as with 64-bit versions of Linux.

Apple Mac Pro 8-Core and 12-Core Nehalem/Westmere ‘MaxRAM’ 128GB Option

• 128GB (8x16GB) PC3-10600 ECC DDR3 Dual Rank 1066 & 1333MHz Matched Modules from $1,949.99

Compared to current factory maximum 64GB option costing $3,550.00, OWC’s kit offers double the memory for up to $1600 lower cost (45% less cost per GB). Article Continues…

Teach your Mac New Things – Keep Your Software Up-To-Date.

Friday, December 9th, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Not everybody is running the “latest and greatest” versions of software. This is extra true when it’s something like Adobe Creative Suite, which can easily top a grand each time a new version comes out. While the extra features may be worth it to some (I absolutely love Photoshop CS5′s  ”Content Aware Fill”), it may not be as useful for others, and $1000+ is nothing to sneeze at.

Sometimes, though, all  you need is an incremental update to give you the features you need. OWC Customer Robert Scott wrote in to us to relay his story of just how true this is.

Robert was running Adobe Photoshop CS4 (11.0.0) under Tiger (OSX 10.4.11) on his 2007 Mac Pro. Unfortunately, Photoshop would disable OpenGL rendering with the stock nVidia GeForce 7300GT video card, which was unsupported. He replaced the GeForce with a refurbished Radeon X1900 XT (purchased from OWC), which allowed Photoshop to enable OpenGL rendering.

This worked great for several years until recently, when the Radeon started running extra hot, causing all sorts of striping on the screen, shutting down the displays at random, and causing hardware freezes.

Apparently, Robert had had enough, and he replaced the X1900 XT with the original GeForce, while preparing to pick up a Radeon HD 5770 to replace it. To his surprise, though, he found that OpenGL was still enabled. Apparently, either the latest version of Photoshop CS4 (11.0.2), the fact he’s now running OS X 10.6.8, or a combination of the two has now added support that was not there initially.

Now, everything is running great for Robert – OpenGL rendering with no striping, freezes or shutdowns – and it didn’t involve any extra expenses.

So what’s the lesson we’ve learned here? Keep up with your software updates for maximum compatibility and functionality; you may save yourself money down the line.

Category: Tech Tips

OWC Radio #61 – The “End of the World” Episode

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | Author: OWC Michael, OWC Grant, OWC Mike H., and OWC Chris S.

The Mayans may have been wrong… We’ve got massive flooding in Thailand causing a world-wide hard drive shortage, asteroids are on the way, Internet Explorer is no longer on top of the web browser food-chain, dinosaurs will soon be roaming the earth while the Mac Pro goes extinct, people are talking to their phones now, the Mac platform is becoming more susceptible to viruses, there are dogs and cats, living together – it’s mass hysteria! Is November 2011 the end of what we know?

OWC Radio is a monthly, forum-based podcast focused on the events and happenings in the Mac community. This week’s hosts are: OWC Grant, OWC Chris S., and OWC Mike H.

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Category: OWC Radio

More on the OWC SSD Updater

Friday, September 2nd, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

We’ve had a number of questions here on the blog and elsewhere regarding our updater. We figured it would be best to simply put it all in one post, to address their concerns, as well as provide a resource for those looking for this information in the future.

First things first, we’d like to note that only customers who purchased their OWC SSD before March 18th, 2011 have any reason to download the current update application. Drives purchased after that date already have the most recent firmware and there is no benefit of an update at this time. Having said that, it is important to know that if/when a firmware update is needed in future, we now have this Mac friendly updater application in addition to the Windows update application we also provide.

This just so happens to be the first Mac-compatible updater for SandForce Powered SSDs, namely OWC’s series of SandForce Powered drives. The bootable disc runs a Linux-based interface that has been customized for our application. It starts up automatically, you point, click, and done.

We truly wanted an updater for our SSDs that would be application specific, Mac friendly, and extremely stable and simple to use. As the screenshots below illustrate, we’ve managed to accomplish that quite well. Article Continues…

Mac-Compatible SandForce Updater Now Available

Thursday, September 1st, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

We know you’ve been asking for it and we’ve been hard at work on it. Now, we can proudly say that OWC has the industry’s first (and only)Mac-compatible firmware updater for SandForce Driven Solid State Drives. It’s available for download from our site for use with select OWC Mercury SSDs manufactured after January 2010.

While we’ve offered firmware updates since Spring 2010 to recently, they’ve only been offered via a Windows-based uploader and required a Boot Camp installation to work properly with your Mac. Now, though, that dependency is gone. All you need to do is download the updater from our site, burn it to a DVD, and boot from that DVD to launch the point-and-click interface. Right now, this utility is only for our 3G SSDs which utilize the SF1200 series processor. We should have an updater for our Mercury 6G series (SF 2200 series processor) in a few weeks. Article Continues…

Adventures in creating an OctoCore Mac Pro – Part 1

Monday, June 20th, 2011 | Author: Guest Blogger

Considerations in Application of a GeoThermal Heat Exchange for Environmental Comfort Following the Upgrade of a MacPro1,1 with Two Over-Clocked Intel X5350 Engineering Samples that Necessitated the Addition of a Water Cooling System

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“How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Intel”

By Robert Bruce Campbell, DO

43,000 attended the 2010 Texas High School Football Championshipat Cowboy’s Stadium, Arlington, Texas

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OWC Announces Industry’s First 16GB Module Based Upgrade Kits Up To 96GB For 2009-2010 Apple Mac Pro For Up To 3X More Memory Versus Factory Offered

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today its MaxRAM Certified Triple-Channel Memory Upgrade Kits are the industry’s first 16GB module based upgrades to provide up to 96GB for all Apple Mac Pro 2009 (Nehalem) and 2010 (Nehalem and Westmere) models. These new 16GB per module kits are Fully Tested, Qualified, and MaxRAM Certified for the most demanding applications and backed by OWC’s Lifetime Advance Replacement Warranty.

Apple Mac Pro 2009, 2010 Quad-Core and 6-Core Nehalem/Westmere ‘MaxRAM’ Option

Apple Mac Pro 2009, 2010 8-Core and 12-Core Nehalem/Westmere ‘MaxRAM’ Option

OWC Radio #54 – The $3 Word Episode

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 | Author: OWC Michael, OWC Chris S., OWC Grant, and OWC Mike H.

Another month of news has gone by and there’s so much to discuss! The iPad 2 is still not widely available. Apple has cut several products from retail stores. Acer is looking to overhaul their operations to be more like Apple. OWC has released several new and exciting products in the last month. Join us as we discuss all of this and more.

OWC Radio is a monthly, forum-based podcast focused on the events and happenings in the Mac community. This week’s hosts are: OWC Grant, OWC Chris S., and OWC Mike H. Article Continues…

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