Asymco graphs Apple’s distinctive growth curve and longevity
Look at the major PC vendors in the 1970s, then look at the same industry today. You'll find only one name common to both periods: Apple. The company's competitors from the early days of the PC industry have all either gone out of business, been abso...
The Kindle Fire Keeps Up With the iPad 2 When Web Browsing, Beats It Hands Down At Netflix Video Streaming [Video]
After months of anticipation, Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire started shipping yesterday, but even since its unveiling critics have been labeling it a worthy iPad competitor. Its pocket-pleasing price tag coupled with its terrific user interface could make it the first tablet to really give...Upgrade Your 06-08 Mac Pro’s Internal Bays to SATA 3.0
Most of the time, your average Mac has a longer useful life than its PC counterpart. Unfortunately, the fast evolution of technology means that, after a while, that older Mac may seem a little slow and may not be able to take full advantage of current ...
Bulldozer design compromises offer mixed bag for desktop use
AMD's first group of Bulldozer-based CPUs, the FX series, have been released and thoroughly benched. The approach behind Bulldozer is what AMD has termed a "third way" between traditional multicore and simultaneous multithr...
Benchmarking the iOS 5 update
Sure, there are plenty of new features with iOS 5, but at what cost? Sometimes, the cost for software updates comes in the form of degraded performance of day-to-day core features that you may depend upon. Let's see if that's the case with iOS 5.
If the A5 makes mobile gaming awesome, why isn’t it in the iPod touch?
When Apple introduced the iPhone 4S on Tuesday, the company took great pains to show off the A5 processors' ability to make games "really scream," claiming twice the computing performance and seven times the graphics...
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...
Feature: How to speed up an aging MacBook with a solid state drive
When we recently detailed how to boost the storage space in a MacBook Air with a replacement solid state drive module, some readers asked what it would be like to swap the hard drive in an...
Intel integrated graphics: finally good enough for the MacBook Air?
At long last, Apple released Intel's highly anticipated Sandy Bridge updates on both the MacBook Air and Mac mini earlier this month. However, many of these machines—along with the 13" MacBook Pro introduced...
To TRIM or not to TRIM (OWC has the answer)
Before we get started talking about TRIM and why you should or should not enable it, let’s just grab a little background, so everybody is roughly on the same page. When you simply “delete” a file on a traditional hard drive, it’s not really “...
10.6.8: The Little Update That Didn’t
Apple released the OS X 10.6.8 update last week. According to the Knowledge Base article on this update: The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability...
Testing: RAID 0 in a MacBook Pro using the Data Doubler.
Among the different configuration options available when using the OWC Data Doubler in your MacBook or MacBook Pro is setting both drives to function as a RAID 0 (striped) array. This combines both drives (the one in the Data Doubler equipped optical b...
