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Adventures in creating an OctoCore Mac Pro – Part 1

Considerations in Application of a GeoThermal Heat Exchange for Environmental Comfort Following the Upgrade of a MacPro1,1 with Two Over-Clocked Intel X5350 Engineering Samples that Necessitated the Addition of a Water Cooling System or “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Intel” By Robert Bruce Campbell, DO Background It was the 2010 Texas Class 5A Division 1 High School...

Dismantling the Trojan Horse (or why MacGuard isn’t a concern)

Aside from a couple of “conceptual” examples shown at conferences here and there, the only real piece of malware on the Mac that’s made it “into the wild” is the now infamous MAC Defender and its variants....one of which, MacGuard, has...

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 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...

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