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Get Great Last-Minute Gifts From OWC

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 | Author: OWC Jarrod

As we recently outlined on our Blog, it’s not too late to order great gifts from OWC and get them under your Christmas tree by Monday, Dec. 24. In fact, 2nd day air delivery still makes the cut for orders placed as late as Thursday. And if you order an in-stock item by Friday or even early enough Saturday with overnight shipping, you still can get your order by Christmas Eve. As always, ordering earlier is still better to protect against unforeseen weather or carrier issues.

So now that you know how to get the perfect gift in time for Christmas, you just need to decide on what the perfect gift is! Luckily, OWC has a ton of options to make your last-minute shopping that much easier. Article Continues…

Holiday Shipping From OWC – It’s Not Too Late!

Monday, December 17th, 2012 | Author: OWC Laura

We are down to five days left to receive deliveries in time for the big day and it is officially crunch time.  As we covered in our last post, there’s a lot of information to take into account when shopping for the holidays.

The time to visit malls and shops has passed, here on in it is going to be granny’s throwing elbows and bumper carts!  Time to throw on some pj’s and fuzzy socks and hit the interwebs.  (A little hot chocolate never hurts either.)

Having five days left to receive deliveries means there’s still five days left to order!  There’s still hope and we’re certainly still here to help.  Our four big tips still ring true for stress-free online shopping; we just have to pay closer attention to the available shipping options.  Here are our tips and the breakdown of still available options: Article Continues…

Category: OWC Difference

Time Machine to the Rescue

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 | Author: OWC Mike H.

Apple released an awesome backup feature called Time Machine back in 2007 when OS X 10.5 Leopard was introduced. Why? Essentially Apple spent the decade building awesome computers in the digital life concept of music, photos, and movies. Apple likely realized that backup solutions, aside from cloning the entire computer, were a bit heavy and hard(ish) to implement by general users. With Time Machine, Apple essentially made a backup solution that’s easy-to-use, works in the background, and is essentially “plug in and forget about it”. “Backup made easy,” if you will.

The amazing thing Time Machine does is that it creates incremental backups, allowing you to step back in time to a previous version of a file. This feature has saved my butt more than a few times when I’ve accidentally overwritten a master Photoshop file, or whenever an important file goes missing. I can just go into to Time Machine and retrieve it from the past.

Time Machine also does a massively valuable trick… it’ll let you restore your Mac to a previous state in the OS. Yup, you can make your Mac go back in time as a whole as well! Article Continues…

Category: Tech Tips

Last Minute Shoppers Rejoice!

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 | Author: OWC Laura

The OWC elves, I mean, employees are all working twice as hard to make sure no order is left behind this holiday season! Since we understand how quickly ‘Eve’s’ tend to sneak up, we’re here to make sure it’s not to late for us to help all your holiday wish lists come true too!

Since it is now Thursday, December 22nd, your best option to get everything you need on time is our Overnight and Priority Overnight delivery services!

We offer this service through both FedEx and UPS to suit all of our customers needs. Overnight delivery is guaranteed to deliver the next day by end of day by both carriers and picks up at OWC as late as 7PM(FedEx) or 7:30PM(UPS). Priority Overnight delivery (also known as AM delivery) is also guaranteed to deliver the next day and picks up at OWC as late as 7:30(FedEx) or 7:45(UPS). This service is great because it typically delivers before 12pm! Article Continues…

MacBook Pro 2011: 12GB and 16GB Memory Upgrades Benchmarked!

Monday, March 14th, 2011 | Author: OWC Michael

Two weeks ago we blogged about how upgrading to Apple’s maximum supported 8GB of memory and an OWC Mercury Extreme SSD could speed up your machine to two and a half times faster then stock in the latest 2011 MacBook Pro Core i5 and Core i7 machines.

Two weeks ago, we were ecstatic about the performance numbers we were seeing. Like an average 25% faster performance with 8GB of memory!

Two weeks ago, we dubbed these machines with our upgrades as “screaming fast.”

That was two weeks ago…

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