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Further Explained: Apple’s iMac 2011 Model Hard Drive ‘Restrictions’

It's incredible the coverage generated by yesterday's blog article on the further iMac upgrade restrictions. I'd like to personally address some questions, context, and provide additional technical detail concerning this issue. I want to be very clear that I think these are absolutely the best iMacs ever. These machines up the game considerably and provide performance that can even match up with the Mac Pro...

The Best Mac Anti-Virus Program?

A little over a year ago, we posted an article here on the OWC Blog that talked about why an anti-virus program on a Mac might not be a bad idea. As you can guess, it wasn’t particularly well-met. While...

Firmware Update Enables 6Gb/s in 2011 iMacs.

Well... that was quick! Just two days after they were released, the 2011 iMacs have a firmware update. While iMac EFI Update 1.6 is described as including “fixes that improve performance and stability for Thunderbolt,” it would also seem that...

Testing: RAID 0 in a MacBook Pro using the Data Doubler.

Among the different configuration options available when using the OWC Data Doubler in your MacBook or MacBook Pro is setting both drives to function as a RAID 0 (striped) array. This combines both drives (the one in the Data Doubler...

10.6.7 Font Problem Follow-Up

You may recall a few weeks ago when we reported a widespread problem in Mac OS X 10.6.7, where documents with OpenType fonts in them did not print or view correctly. At the time, our recommendation was to roll back...

2011 MBP Optical Bay Only 3Gb/s? No Problem.

Since their release, people have been asking whether the 2011 MacBook Pros can use a 6Gb/s SATA drive at full speed in the optical bay, via an adapter such as the OWC Data Doubler. The short answer is: No, you...

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