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Lion No Longer Available

When Apple released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion yesterday, it quietly removed the option of purchasing it’s predecessor, 10.7 Lion. This is nothing really new; once a new version of the software is released, older versions generally are no longer sold. For many, this shouldn’t be much of a problem; you can still go from 10.6.8 (the minimum OS for...

MagSafe 2 Power Supplies More Powerful than Previous Models

Along with all the other bells and whistles covered last week, the new MacBook Pro with Retina display and MacBook Airs also sport MagSafe 2 power connectors. It’s a slight redesign on the current models, so your old spare MagSafe...

New 2012 Macs Means New OWC SSD Designs

In my earlier post, I mentioned that the new 2012 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 15" Retina machines are now using two new, different SSD slot designs/connectors not used previously. Here's a few pictures of the new connectors, compared to...

Apple Now Using SandForce-based SSDs in 2012 MacBook Air

An old saying goes, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." It seems as though Apple has decided to follow our lead and base the Solid State Drives in the new 2012 MacBook Air models (model ID MacBookAir5,1 and MacBookAir5,2)...

All New MacBook Pro; Updated MacBook Air

In case you hadn’t heard, Apple announced some new hardware today. Actually, they also announced a lot of Apps and OS features, but for many, the focus was on the new hardware. For the last couple of weeks (and even...

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