Apple’s Latest 2011 MacBook Pro Refresh & Using SATA Revision 3.0 6Gb/s Drives
As we mentioned last Monday, Apple has released new “speed bumped” MacBook Pro 13″, 15″, and 17″ model laptops. These units all show 6Gb/s link capability for both the main drive bay and the optical bay. Right out of the gate all ...
Mac’s Future Review of the OWC Turnkey Upgrade Program for iMac.
This review initially appeared on the Mac’s Future weblog, and has been reposted with permission. Information and opinions contained within the post are those of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Other World Computing. M...
Thunderbolt Display – Data Transfer Speed Testing
We were pretty exited to receive our first few Thunderbolt Displays yesterday. If you want a closer look – we released some unboxing photos before we started our testing. We set off to see just how good essentially the world’s first Thunder...
Want to win an OWC Electra SSD?
Our friends over at The SSD Review are currently holding a contest to win the fastest and most reliable Solid State Drive on the market today: the OWC 240GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD. To be eligible, one must be (or become) an active and contributing mem...
By The Numbers: What Can An OWC 6G SSD Do For Your 2011 Mac mini?
Our benchmarking has been completed on the latest round of Mac mini machines from Apple. We teased a bit with our post from last Friday exclaiming that the OWC 6G SSDs work with the new 2011 Mac mini. In our excitement on discovering the functionality...
2011 Mac mini works with OWC 6G SSDs
After extensive testing, we’re glad to announce that both the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G line and our Mercury Electra 6G line of SSDs are fully compatible with the 6Gb/s SATA 3.0 ports on both the 2011 Mac mini and the 2011 Mac mini Server. Both driv...
Follow-Up: New MacBook Air CAN Use OWC Aura SSD
As Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane might say, “Good News! Good News!” We’ve confirmed that the flash storage on the 2011 MacBook Air is the same removable module type design as found on the 2010 models. But don’t take our word for it – her...
Target Display Mode And Thunderbolt
Target Display Mode on the Late 2009 and 2010 iMacs was a pretty neat trick; you connected the iMac to another Mac via the Mini Display Port connector and the iMac’s display became a second monitor for the first mac while the system ran “headless
Thunderbolt Via Target Disk Mode
Several weeks ago when Apple released the first Thunderbolt-equipped Mac, the questions started pouring in on how quickly we’d be able to see the benefits of blazing external speeds. Interestingly enough, no thunderbolt cables were even available...
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 For Mac Benchmarked
Our friends over at Bare Feats are at it again, benchmarking away. In a post today, they’ve found the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac helps speed things up while running Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Added to their performance findings from ...
MacBook Pro 2011 Models and SATA 3.0 (6.0Gb/s) – Update – 5/27/2011
Since we first looked at a potential fix for problems with SATA 3.0 operation in the main bay of the 2011 MacBook Pros on April 15, we’ve learned much more. It’s not so sweet at this point, but I will at least try to keep it as short as possibl...
2011 iMac Benchmark Testing With the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD
What a whirlwind of information these new iMacs have been creating. Just a few hours after the machines were released, we had five out of the six base models unboxed and going through our gamut of tests. We were shocked when we installed our new OWC Me...
