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Target Display Mode And Thunderbolt

Target Display Mode on Late 2009 and 2010 iMacs was a pretty neat trick; you connected the iMac to another Mac via the Mini Display Port connector, and the iMac’s display became a second monitor for the first Mac while the system ran “headless” underneath it. When you unplugged the cable, the iMac’s display reverted back to the iMac itself....

Give Me My Eject Key Back!

A couple of months ago, I visited the OWC offices and took advantage of OWC Jamie's workbench skills and had him perform some "OWC Love" on my 2011 MacBook Pro by removing the optical drive and replacing it with an...

10.6.8: The Little Update That Didn’t

Apple released the OS X 10.6.8 update last week. According to the Knowledge Base article on this update: The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance...

Final Cut Pro X is released. OWC can help get your Mac up to the task.

Apple released Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor on Tuesday. If you follow that sort of thing, you’ve probably already seen plenty of reviews and walkthroughs of the new features, new layout and overall performance enhancements of Apple’s “professional” video editing...

Blu-ray and Macs? With OWC, Yes!

While fairly common on many Windows boxes, Mac OS X does not support playback of Blu-ray movies on your Mac, and it's not likely to do so any time soon. That means that if you’ve added a Mac mini to your...

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...

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