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Tag Archives: Mercury Helios FX 650

Powered By OWC: Walk Off the Earth

"We've been using these products for a year and they have really stepped up our game." In this short video, Gianni Nicassio of Walk Off The Earth talks about how OWC products play a part in his musical workflow. Here...

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eGPU 101: A Primer on External Graphics Processing Units

Hang around a group of Mac power users long enough, and eventually, you’ll hear the term eGPU. As you can probably surmise from this article’s headline, eGPU is an acronym for “external Graphics Processing Unit.” The acronym is pronounced “eee-gee-pee-you,” not “egg-poo.” It describes an external chassis that is connected to a laptop computer via a high-bandwidth connection cable and provides more graphics processing power than is available from the laptop’s internal graphics processing unit (GPU). Let’s get into some more detail!

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OWC eGPU Enclosures Play Nice in the Sandbox with macOS Catalina

A quick public service announcement of sorts... I happened upon a recent article on Apple Insider that caught my attention. The title said it all – Apple's macOS Catalina causing problems with select eGPU setups. Yikes. The reason it piqued...

Adobe Creative Cloud Video Editing Apps Now Benefit From eGPU

(The OWC Helios FX Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Chassis and AMD Radeon 580 GPU.) At the recent NAB 2019 trade show, Adobe announced that newly-released versions of Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder can use Thunderbolt 3 external Graphics Processing Units...