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\"\"Long-time readers have probably noticed that we’re not bashful talking about how great our products are<\/a>. While all of what we say about the products is\u2014to the best of our knowledge<\/a>\u2014true, I\u2019m the first <\/em>to admit that it\u2019s kind of hard to take the word of someone who has a vested interest in selling you the product they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

So, this time around, we\u2019re letting some well-respected, independent reviewers say what we\u2019ve probably already said a million times:<\/p>\n

\u201cMore Memory=A Faster Mac\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lloyd Chambers (aka diglloyd) from Mac Performance Guide<\/a> knows about squeezing every last bit of performance out of your Mac. So, when he got a new quad-core 2011 MacBook Pro<\/a>, and decided to put it up to test against a Mac Pro, what did he do? He maxed it out with OWC memory<\/a> and dropped an OWC Mercury Extreme SSD<\/a> in there, of course!<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t say that the OWC memory upgrade was the defining <\/em>upgrade that kept the MacBook Pro running neck & neck<\/a> with the Mac Pro it was up against, but as diglloyd posted the next day:<\/p>\n

…then everything comes to a crawl, as it will with any Mac with too little memory…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t get more clear than that – the more memory you have in your Mac, the better it will perform. Just ask diglloyd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD offers amazing speed increases for the price.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Rob-ART over at Barefeats.com<\/a> also recently got one of the new 2011 MacBook Pros with the 6Gb\/s SATA bay and compared the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro to a number of standard drives, as well as to a 6Gb\/s SSD.<\/p>\n

Throughout the tests, the results of which you can see for yourself at the Barefeats site<\/a>, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD (which is a 3Gb\/s drive) not only blew the stock Apple SSD out of the water, but also kept pace with the 6Gb\/s SSD, <\/strong>actually coming out faster <\/em>in the Large Sequential Write test.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re a bit skeptical when we tout the performance increases our Mercury Extreme Pro SSDs deliver, just check with Rob-ART; he\u2019s seen it first-hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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