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Add a Mac mini to Your Home Theater System

The Mac mini has always kind of been the “odd man out” in the Mac lineup. It doesn’t fit the “four-square” lineup (consumer desktop, consumer laptop, Pro desktop, Pro laptop) Apple introduced years ago. It’s infrequently updated, slightly underpowered, and upgrading it is almost as fun as a That’s not to say...

New Installation Videos: PowerBook G4 15” & 17”

Installation junkies rejoice! We’ve got some more instructional videos for you. This time around we’re covering the two machines we’ve received the most requests for: the 17” PowerBook G4 and the 15” PowerBook G4 (Aluminum). For each ‘Book, we show...

Four Reasons to Partition Your Drive

Being a member of the Sales team here at OWC, I get exposed to a lot of customer inquiries on how to properly set up their hard drives. Hard drive performance is a critical component of overall system performance, especially...

Consider Keeping a Backup of Your Data Off-Site

Several months ago, I had a catastrophic drive failure with my main music computer which wiped out my audio drive & motherboard!  I decided then and there that I would never let myself be vulnerable for data loss again. I...

Data Backup 3 Updated to Version 3.1.1

In case you didn't know this, all OWC and Newer Technology storage solutions come bundled with a copy of Prosoft Engineering's Data Backup 3 software. Data Backup 3 is a powerful utility that allows you to backup, restore and synchronize...

1.4 million files can’t be wrong… or can they?

Recently, while doing a little "housekeeping" on my work Mac, I noticed that I had less than 10% of my drive available. While I do have a lot of large project files I work on from day to day, I...

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