{"id":8548,"date":"2011-01-06T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:35:07","slug":"our-new-ssd-line-gives-your-legacy-computer-super-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/8548-our-new-ssd-line-gives-your-legacy-computer-super-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new SSD line gives your Legacy computer Super Speed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4098\" title=\"superglobe\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/superglobe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/superglobe.png 300w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/superglobe-102x120.png 102w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/superglobe-275x323.png 275w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/superglobe-161x190.png 161w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/superglobe-102x120@2x.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In case you somehow missed all the announcements <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/date\/2011\/01\/05\">yesterday<\/a>, we\u2019ve expanded our award-winning line of Solid State Drives to include options for the MacBook Air, legacy machines and small form factor notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>The OWC line of SSDs now includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Mercury_Extreme_Pro\">OWC Mercury Extreme Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_RE\">OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Mercury_Extreme_Pro\/Legacy_Edition\">OWC Mercury Extreme Pro Legacy Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Aura_Pro_Express\">OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Aura_Pro_MBA\">OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Aura_Pro_1.8\">OWC Mercury Aura Pro 1.8&#8243;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Aura_Pro_1.8\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Mercury_Legacy_Pro\">OWC Mercury Legacy Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While you can find additional information on each of the product pages and in <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/date\/2011\/01\/05\">yesterday\u2019s press releases<\/a>, we\u2019re bursting to show you how well these new additions work.<\/p>\n<p>Below, we\u2019ve got a pair of videos that show that the <strong>OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA SSD<\/strong> not only <strong>speeds up booting and launching applications<\/strong> on a 2008\/2009 MacBook Air, but it also lets you perform those same tasks <strong>faster than a 2010 2.66GHz i7 MacBook Pro!<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are both single-shot videos; no edits, cuts or fancy video trickery are involved. It\u2019s just pure SSD speed.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"351\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/NPeg107_tis?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"351\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/bbEWqgcIOiU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Pretty impressive, huh? 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