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Hard Drive Upgrades with Lion: Not Just a simple Clone Anymore

Hard drive upgrades are a popular upgrade for many Mac users and there’s a few different reasons for that. The first biggie is space. With all the files, pictures, movies, music, software updates, and other bits of info vying for space, that once-vast 500GB hard drive is now nearly full. A bigger hard drive means more room to put it all....

Adventures in creating an OctoCore Mac Pro – Part 2

Here's Part 2 of Dr. Robert Bruce Campbell's explanation of how he built his water-cooled, Octo-Core MacPro 1,1. If you haven't already (or if you just want a refresher) we suggest reading the first part for a little background. Considerations...

My ________ Broke When I Upgraded To Lion!

There's only so much preparation that can be done before a major operating system release. It seems inevitable to avoid every hiccup. Fortunately, many manufacturers of products have already issued compatibility statements, driver updates and workarounds for many of the...

Lion Launches as Shuttle Gets Ready To Land.

While the last flight of the Space Shuttle rapidly approaches its finale, Apple’s latest iteration of OS X is ready to take flight. While we’re certainly sad to see the end of an era of space exploration, we can’t help...

OWC & NT Storage Solutions Lion Ready.

You know that feeling when you’ve upgraded to a new operating system and you find that your favorite peripheral doesn’t work any more? We sure do; it stinks. That’s why we’ve gathered all OWC and NewerTech storage solutions, including 'legacy'...

To TRIM or not to TRIM (OWC has the answer)

Before we get started talking about TRIM and why you should or should not enable it, let’s just grab a little background, so everybody is roughly on the same page. When you simply “delete” a file on a traditional hard...

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