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Snow Leopard Changes the Way We Look at Gigabytes

For a long time, there’s been an interesting discrepancy between the capacity listed on a hard drive’s label and the capacity reported by the computer. For example, attaching a 250GB hard drive would show up in the system as having 232.74GB available. Many would chalk it up to “formatting.” While the formatting information takes up some space, 17GB is a little...

The Rules of Upgrading Rarely Change

About a year ago, OWC CEO Larry O’Connor had this to say in his Tips and Deals Newsletter: “It's fun to talk about the 'latest and greatest' - but certainly not practical to buy that new top of the line...

What good is the MacBook Pro SD card slot anyway?

While there has been quite a debate over Apple's decision to provide an SD card slot rather than an ExpressCard slot on the MacBook Pro 13" and 15" models, the fact of the matter remains that these machines are available...

Lost Archive of the RAIDs

While we don’t have an instructional video for you this week, we’ve got something just as educational, if not as animated. Not resting after designing OWC’s new look, our crack product development and graphics departments put together a nifty resource...

Crib notes for Safari 4.

Sometimes, when I feel the urge to tinker, I poke around the various “resource bundles” of applications on my Mac. Its not always a smart thing to do (which is why I always work on a copy) and very often,...

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