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New Instructional Videos!

Friday, August 12th, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

It’s been a while since we really drew attention to new additions to our Instructional Series of videos, but considering the requests we’ve been getting lately, we figured you may be interested.

We’ve added a total of six new videos to our DIY section, showing you how to upgrade the memory and storage on the 2011 mini and mini Server, as well as showing you how to install the Mercury Aura Pro Express in the 2011 MacBook Airs.

You can check out these new videos (and all out other ones, too) in our Tech Center, on our YouTube Channel, or in iTunes.

 

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OWC Radio #58 – Gelatin In Every Pot, A Mac On Every Desk

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 | Author: OWC Michael, OWC Grant, OWC Mike H., and OWC Chris S.

Lion has arrived and is met with mixed reviews from our panel. Join us as we discuss all the new Macs, the future of Thunderbolt, and other major topics in the tech industry – such as Steve Jobs for President, the iPad and the Comic Book Industry, and when does science fiction become science fact?

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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Bye-Bye MacBook.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Amongst all the hardware refreshes and OS updates, a small little detail may have been overlooked by some; the MacBook has been quietly removed from the listings on Apple’s Web site, leaving the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air as Apple’s only portable options.

Apple confirmed this with Engadget earlier today.

Hardware-wise, this isn’t much of a loss; the specs on the last version of the MacBook were fairly similar to the low-end model of 13” MacBook Pro released at the same time: same processor, same bus speed, same battery capacity, same screen size, same graphics card, and same maximum amount of RAM. The main differences were the cases (white polycarbonate vs aluminum), number of expansion options (The MacBook Pro added an SD slot and a FW800 port to the MacBook’s offerings) and the price (about $200 more for the MacBook Pro).

It’s that last one that’s going to affect a lot of people. At $999, the MacBook sat as an affordable laptop with a decent screen size, balance of features, and general usability. At that price point, Apple now only has the 11-inch MacBook Air. So for the same money, you get a smaller screen, a weaker video card, less storage and seemingly no upgrade options.

On the plus side, at least the entry model 2011 MacBook Pro 13” is only $200 more at $1199, which makes it the better buy overall, if just for the ability to upgrade memory, upgrade to a super-fast SSD, or even add a second drive.

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OWC’s July GarageSale/Clearance Underway!

Saturday, July 9th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Sure, we announced a price drop on the Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 yesterday, but we understand that not everybody wants or needs a desktop RAID unit. That’s cool. As it turns out, we have lots of great deals on lots of different items – possibly something you’ve been looking for. Here’s just a sampling.

Grab these great deals while you can! Items are “first come, first served” and of varying limited quantities. Quantities are limited to that which is on hand and items automatically count down and ‘disappear’ as sold out. Sorry… no rain checks.

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Now drop up to 2.0TB of Storage Into Your MacBook or MacBook Pro!

Friday, July 8th, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Even with all the exciting news around the OWC offices—price drops, the final space shuttle launch, and other such fun news items—we just couldn’t keep this under our hat.

Other World Computing is happy to announce that with the arrival of the 1.0TB Samsung Spinpoint M8 2.5” Hard Drive, we’ve got our first 9.5mm one terabyte notebook drives now in stock!

Until now, the only 1.0TB notebook hard drives available were 12.5mm high. That meant that only MacBooks and MacBook Pros with the “Unibody” design and 17” pre-Unibody models could have a 1.0TB drive installed, and it would have to be installed in the main drive bay. 13” an 15” MacBook Pro users would just have to settle for 750GB drives.

With the release of these thinner drives, a full terabyte of storage is now available to all MacBooks and MacBook Pros going back to 2006 when they were first introduced!

“But, wait,” I can hear you say, “the headline said we could install two terabytes!” Article Continues…

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Great Deals Pop Up Like May Flowers In This Month’s Garage Sale

Saturday, May 7th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Another month or so has gone by and we’ve got another Garage Sale chock-full of great deals for you. However, there are times to wax poetic about it, and there are times to just proceed on to business. This is the latter, so let’s just get right to it and see what’s available this month.

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Mercury Extreme SSD makes fast new MBP even faster!

Monday, March 28th, 2011 | Author: Guest Blogger

by Peter Schmalfeldt – Satisfied OWC Customer

I got my new 17” MacBook Pro the other day, but before it even hit my doorstep, I already had plans for some surgery. I wanted to swap out the Solid State Drive (SSD) that came with the MacBook Pro (a Toshiba drive provided by Apple) with a better performing & more stable OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD.

Before I swapped anything out, I performed some benchmarking tests and also timed how long it took to boot up the computer and get to a desktop. The second test took 33.7 seconds from the time I pressed the power button until the desktop finished loading.

That’s pretty fast, but I think we can do better…

So, I took it apart to put in the new OWC SSD. I installed it using an OWC Data Doubler, which lets me put a second drive in the optical drive bay. Then, after formatting both drives and re-installing the OS onto my new OWC drive, I turned it on. With the laptop off, pressing the power button and getting to a finished desktop took 21.8 seconds. That shaved about 12 seconds—or about 35%—off the old boot time!

Also, for the sake of science, I ran the Geekbench testing suite before and after the install, and posted the results. The first listing with 10537 is the most recent test with new drive; 10516 was the score with the original drive.

To me, it’s pretty clear that this OWC Mercury SSD smokes the Apple Toshiba SSD that ships with the MacBook Pros that have them installed.

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OWC Data Doubler Enables Adding Up To 133% More Internal Storage Capacity Over Factory Options To New 2011 Apple MacBook Pros

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today its OWC Data Doubler optical bay drive mounting solution adds 133% more internal storage capacity than the factory offers to the new 2011 MacBook Pro models announced by Apple last week. The OWC Data Doubler enables new MacBook Pro owners to replace their infrequently used optical drive with a second hard drive or SSD for upgrading the main drive bay up to 1.0TB storage capacity and/or adding up to 750GB additional capacity in the optical drive bay for a total of 1.75TB of total internal data storage and backup capacity, create an internal RAID, or create other customized internal data storage configurations. Article Continues…

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