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“Tough as Jens Voigt”

As you may know, we like to keep a close eye on the Twitterverse (you can find us at @macsales) and, occasionally find OWC as a topic of discussion. Well, this morning, Twitter user @maddogmedia posted the comment “I’ve been using OWC drives fo...

CES 2012 Rewound, Recapped, and Reviewed

Our second year at CES was a big success and while you may have read other sources’ accounts of the show, I thought you might (since you likely are a regular reader and interested in all things OWC) like a summary from our perspective. Now, if you’...

Happy New Year from OWC!

All of you who want to get those great OWC products you got for Christmas set up before the new year (or to get more stuff, because we can always use more) will be glad to hear OWC staffers will be here for our normal hours on Saturday, December 31,...

Hard Drive Supply: We’re not quite in the clear yet.

There has been another development in our ongoing coverage regarding how the flooding in Thailand has been affecting the hard drive industry. With the waters receding and the supply chains starting to open back up, the prices on drives have started to ...

Last Minute Shoppers Rejoice!

The OWC elves, I mean, employees are all working twice as hard to make sure no order is left behind this holiday season! Since we understand how quickly ‘Eve’s’ tend to sneak up, we’re here to make sure it’s not to late for us to help all you...

Adventures in creating an OctoCore Mac Pro – A Brief Interlude

Considerations in Application of a GeoThermal Heat Exchange for Environmental Comfort Following the Upgrade of a MacPro1,1 with Two Over-Clocked Intel X5350 Engineering Samples that Necessitated the Addition of a Water Cooling System Part Trois or- “...

OWC Ties for First Place in TUAW “Best of 2011” Poll – With OWC

About a week and a half ago, we asked you to nominate your favorite OWC product for The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s “Best of 2011” awards poll. Well, with your help, we got not just one, but two products nominated: The Data Doubler and our Mercury ...

Science’s Evidence of “God Particle” Still Agnostic

The science world was all atwitter last night about today’s announcement from CERN. Had the Higgs boson, the yet-to-be-observed subatomic particle thought by some to endow other particles with mass (prompting the nickname of “God Particle”), fina...

Vote for TUAW’s Best of 2011 Products

The Unofficial Apple Weblog is currently collecting nominations for their TUAW Best of 2011 Awards. We were quite tickled when even in their post asking for nominations they first mused, “Will one of OWC’s fast SSDs take home the award?&#82...

Thailand Hard Drive Production Resuming

We’ve finally got some positive news amongst the dire supply conditions brought on by the Thailand floods; Western Digital has resumed its hard drive production in Thailand. According to a press release on the WD Web site, the company restarted produ...

Win a 240GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD

Everybody loves a chance to win something; if they didn’t, Wheel of Fortune would be little more than a spelling test followed by a look through a Sears catalog. Once you add prizes, though, things get much more interesting – and that’s where...

Last Chance to Vote for OWC

Well, we’re in the final stretch for this year’s “Visit Me at CES” video contest. Voting ends today, so if you’re waiting until the last minute to vote for us, you’d better act now! And for those who have already voted for us – you ca...