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Mercury Extreme Pro SSD Review

Posted 04/19/2011 at 9:30am | by Florence Ion

The future of the MacBook can definitely be seen in the thin form factor and speedy performance of the MacBook Air -- two huge benefits that come in large part from the Air’s onboard flash memory. Unfortunately, you can’t magically turn a MacBook Pro into an Air, but you can swap out a Pro’s platter-based hard disk for the flash memory of a solid-state drive (SSD). To give the MacBook Pro the kind of pep of its thinner sibling, we traded out the stock hard drive for a Mercury Extreme Pro SSD from OWC. In certain circumstances, the performance gains were significant, but we had to trade capacity for speed.

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Apple Switches Up To Samsung SSDs For MacBook Air

Posted 04/17/2011 at 11:24am | by Matthew Tilmann

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In a move that was quite rather unannounced, it appears that Apple has opted to move to a speedier SSD for the MacBook Air. When exactly this transpired is unknown, but one thing for sure is that the Samsung SM128C model is a lot faster than MacBook Airs that are sporting the Toshiba TS128C model.

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Spring Cleaning: Five Awesome Disk Cleaners

Posted 03/21/2011 at 10:15am | by Seamus Bellamy

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Apple computers are amazing machines, aren’t they? From the moment you turn a on a Mac to when you shut it down, it really does just work. As a proud owner of a Mac, you never have to worry about defragging, cache cleaning or general upkeep like our Windows PC-rocking friends do, right? Well, actually that's where you're wrong.

While computers running OS X don’t require the same coddling as Windows-based systems, tidying up your Mac’s hard disk or solid state drive can provide you with a number of great benefits, like faster Finder indexing, reclaimed storage space, and on computers running critically low on free drive space, a noticeable performance bump. What computer user in their right mind wouldn’t be excited about those sorts of perks?

To get you started on your own drive cleaning regiment, we’ve put together a list of our five favorite drive cleaning applications that are guaranteed to whip your Mac’s drives into shape in no time flat.

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Apple Halts Production of PhotoFast MacBook Air Upgrades

Posted 11/30/2010 at 7:18am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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You may recall the news late last month that a company named PhotoFast was producing 256GB upgrade kits for the new MacBook Air. As it turns out, Apple wasn’t too happy with the news, and now the company has been asked to stop.

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Toshiba Unleashes MacBook Air SSD to Mass Market

Posted 11/08/2010 at 7:24am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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If you’ve held off buying a MacBook Air because you feared there was no way to increase the onboard storage, think again: Toshiba is now offering three sizes of blade-style SSD for those of you ready for more.

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Upgrade Your MacBook Air to 256GB, Use Old SSD via USB 3.0

Posted 10/27/2010 at 5:38am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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Let’s say you bought one of the swanky new 11.6-inch MacBook Air base models -- you know, the one with a mere 64GB of storage. Now you’ve realized that your iPhoto library alone will consume a huge chunk of that. What to do? Soon you may be able to upgrade to 256GB -- and keep your old 64GB as a USB 3.0 flash drive.

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The Lifer: Farewell to Hard-Disk Drives

Posted 08/23/2010 at 9:24am | by Rik Myslewski

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Storage drives are evolving significantly, and this month, Rik Myslewski examines the approaching sea-change known as SSDs and bids...

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Solid State Drive Showdown

Posted 06/02/2010 at 1:49pm | by jamor

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Solid-state drives are gaining in popularity--and dropping in price. We tested a selection of them to pinpoint the ones that are perfect for your Mac.

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