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Macworld experiences mixed results with MacBook Air SSD upgrades

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2011)

Computers are like cars: while the vast majority of owners are happy to drive around in their car for years, exactly the way they came off of the dealer's lot, some people want to customize their wheels immediately. It's not surprising that for some owners of Apple's popular MacBook Air, the first ...

OWC offers 480 GB SSD for 2010 MacBook Air

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 6th, 2011)

If you want to give your 2010 MacBook Air a competitive edge with the largest solid state drive available for your notebook, then check out the Mercury Aura Pro Express line from Other World Computing (OWC). The third-party SSD is available in 180, 240, 360 and 480 GB capacities and fits both ...

New iMacs and HDD+SSD configurations; how do they work?

by Richard Gaywood (May 4th, 2011)

MacStories points out there is a small, but perhaps important, difference in the "SSD+HDD" option on the new iMacs. You used to simply get two drives you had to manage separately, as in the screenshot here taken from my MacBook Pro (in which I long ago swapped the optical drive for an SSD). For ...

Apple adds speedier SSDs to latest batch of MacBook Airs

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2011)

When the new MacBook Airs began shipping last October they sported Toshiba's Blade X-gale SSD (Solid State Drive). However, it appears that the latest batch of MacBook Airs uses a blade SSD from Samsung. Apple typically will use multiple vendors to supply the same parts for a particular ...

Keeping SSDs in TRIM: doing the math

by Richard Gaywood (Mar 27th, 2011)

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science that lie behind the hardware. One of the new features we first saw in the developer beta of Mac OS X Lion back in February is long-overdue in this correspondent's humble opinion: it finally supports ...

MacBook Pro updated: Faster CPUs, Radeon HD, Thunderbolt, and more

by Chris Rawson (Feb 24th, 2011)

As expected, Apple has updated the MacBook Pro and given the lineup some significant upgrades. In brief, the lineup has seen significant processor updates, with Intel's new "Sandy Bridge" processors standard throughout the lineup, including 13.3 model. AMD's Radeon HD GPU has replaced the ...

MacBook Pros to have better battery and HD screens, white MacBook finished

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Rumors of the imminent MacBook Pro refresh are gaining even further momentum. So far, we've heard reports that the new, upcoming MacBook Pros will sport larger trackpads, weigh slightly less than the current models and have a 8 - 16 GB SSD boot drive to house Mac OS X (everything else will be ...

MacBook Pro rumors: SSD boot drive standard, bigger trackpad, lighter weight

by Chris Rawson (Feb 21st, 2011)

Citing a source from within Apple, Boy Genius Report has some interesting tidbits on the imminent MacBook Pro update. According to BGR's source, the MacBook Pro's trackpad will be getting even larger than those in the current lineup, and the overall weight of the notebook has dropped by about half ...

Macworld 2011: DriveSavers talks about SSD recovery

by David Winograd (Jan 27th, 2011)

I spoke with Chris Bross of DriveSavers about recovery of data from SSD (solid-state drive) storage at their booth. Currently, SSDs are in their third generation with reliability improving all the time. An SSD is comprised of two parts -- the NAND memory and the controller. The NAND is more or less ...

Hands-on with the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual mini SSD

by Steven Sande (Jan 17th, 2011)

When I think of RAID, I usually envision a large box full of whirring drives installed in a rack, not a quiet little box that I can connect to a MacBook. Thanks to Other World Computing, the way I visualize RAID will have to change. For those of you who might be unfamiliar with the term RAID, it ...

MacBook Air SSD upgrades to ship next week from OWC

by Dave Caolo (Jan 5th, 2011)

Other World Computing (OWC) wowed us today by announcing its Mercury Aura Pro Express Solid State Drive (SSD) line, an SSD upgrade option for all 2010 MacBook Airs. They offer greater speed than Apple's factory offerings and much more storage. OWC claims peak data rates of 275 MB/s, making them ...

3TB HD, triple SSD iMac turnkey drive upgrades available from OWC

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2010)

In the never-ending search for bigger and faster storage options, Mac users have a number of sources for hard drives, but OWC has been a favorite for many Apple fans since the late 1980s. Now the company is offering a set of turnkey eSATA add-ons and upgrades for mid-2010 27" iMacs that should make ...

Apple kills PhotoFast 256GB MacBook Air upgrade kit

by Dave Caolo (Nov 30th, 2010)

Easy come, easy go. Apple has reportedly asked (politely, we assume) PhotoFast not to sell the 256GB MacBook Air SSD upgrade kit we were so eager to get our hands on. In fact, the product page is throwing a 404 this morning. The kit looked great, and it included the 256GB upgrade chip as well as ...

27" iMac gets an SSD, process is not for the faint-hearted

by Steven Sande (Nov 29th, 2010)

There comes a time in a boy's life when his latest toy no longer thrills him as it did when it was shiny and new. Engadget blogger Richard Lai found that his Core i7 27" iMac was slowing down as it neared its first birthday, so he decided to liven things up by popping a 240GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD into ...

Macworld 2010: OWC's Grant Dahlke demos USB 3.0 drive, fastest SSD

by Steven Sande (Feb 12th, 2010)

Mac expansion powerhouse Other World Computing always has something incredible to show off at Macworld Expo, and there was no doubt about it when we visited the OWC booth on Thursday. OWC's Grant Dahlke displayed some of the new products coming out from the company, including their first USB 3.0 ...