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2013

May 2013

Apr 2013

Mar 2013

Feb 2013

Jan 2013

2012

Dec 2012

Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini 12/31/12
USB3 on the Mac Pro — CalDigit PCIe 2-Port USB3 Card 12/31/12
OWC Area 51 Sale 12/28/12
Why Not a Mac Pro Mini? 12/23/12
Confused About Mac Pro Options? Consult With MPG 12/23/12
Taxes: Section 179 for Small Business Owners (Accelerated Depreciation) 12/21/12
OWC Last Minute Shipping 12/20/12
SSD and NAND Memory Chips Availability 12/20/12
New Apple 27" iMac — 32GB Memory 12/20/12
Presentation Tonight: Computers for Photographers (Concord, CA, 7:00 PM) 12/17/12
OWC Offers Memory Upgrade Kit for late 2012 Apple 21.5" iMac 12/16/12
What’s Most Important for Your Mac? 12/15/12
Photoshop CS6 13.0.2 HiDPI Update: Faster Than Before by 13% 12/11/12
Photoshop CS6 13.0.2 HiDPI Update — Retina Display Images Look Terrific 12/11/12
My Favorite Mac Hardware 12/10/12
Memory Price Trends for MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, MacMini 12/10/12
Time Machine Bug — Is Your Data Being Backed Up? 12/04/12
New Apple 27" iMac — Buying Advice 12/03/12
How to Show / Unhide the Library Folder in Your Home Directory (Mac OS X) 12/01/12

Nov 2012

New Apple 21.5" iMac — Memory is Difficult to Upgrade 11/30/12
New Apple 27" iMac 11/30/12
OWC Black Friday Deals for Mac or PC 11/21/12
Reader Question: Updating the Boot Drive 11/19/12
New Mac Pro in Late 2013? 11/18/12
Reader Question: DiskTester and OS X Cache 11/18/12
Seafood for the holidays? 11/14/12
When Will a New Mac Pro Appear? 11/14/12
Speed Up Saving and Opening Photoshop CS6 Files 11/12/12
Which is Faster with Photoshop CS6? 12-Core or 6-Core Mac Pro? 11/12/12
MacWorld: MacMini and Fusion 11/09/12
Update on Apple 'Fusion': Writes are Fast, No Smart Migration 11/08/12
MacMini: 16GB vs 8GB, Hard Drive vs SSD 11/06/12
Reader Questions on the Mac Mini 11/05/12
MacMini with PCIe SSD (OWC Mercury Helios + Accelsior) = FASTER STILL 11/04/12
MacMini — Turnkey Upgrade with 16GB and Fast 6G SSD 11/04/12
MacMini — Digital Camera RAW Conversion vs Mac Pro, MacBook Pro 11/04/12
MacMini — Dual Internal Separate Drives are Superior to the 'Fusion' Option 11/03/12
MacMini — Hard Drive vs SSD 11/03/12
MacMini Quad-Core Performance vs MacBook Pro, Mac Pro 11/03/12
Summary So Far of Apple Fusion Technology — Attempted on MacMini, Mac Pro 11/03/12
Disk Utility (Fusion Version)— Cannot Handle Two Internal Drives in MacMini 11/03/12
Memory Price Trends for MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, MacMini 11/03/12
MacMini and Fusion Drive Setup 11/02/12
MacMini Dual-Drive Coming to test Fusion Performance/Behavior 11/02/12
Lively Logic for Graphing 11/01/12

Oct 2012

Performance of 'Fusion' Drive (OWC Accelsior 480GB PCIe SSD + 2TB HDD) 10/31/12
Setting Up Your Own High Performance 'Fusion' Drive 10/31/12
OWC Mercury Elite Pro 4TB External with USB 3, Firewire, eSATA Ports 10/27/12
Apple’s Fusion Drive 10/25/12
Analysis of the new Mac Pro — Oops Nothing Announced 10/24/12
Files and Folders That Are Invisible in Finder Windows (But Should Not Be) 10/23/12
Analysis of the Oct 2012 MacMini 10/23/12
Analysis of the Oct 2012 iMac 10/23/12
MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display — Analysis versus the 15" Model 10/23/12
MacBook Pro Lineup: Will we ever see built-in Cell Support? 10/21/12
MacBook Pro with Retina Display — Thoughts on the 13" Model 10/19/12
Apple 27" iMac Seagate 1TB Drive Replacement Program 10/19/12
MacBook Pro with Retina Display — Thoughts from on the Road and at Home 10/11/12
How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups 10/08/12
Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester 10/08/12
16GB Memory for MacBook Pro — No-brainer at $120 10/06/12

Sep 2012

MacBook Pro 13" 2.9 GHz as a Fast Little Server 09/19/12
Mac Pro Memory Drops in Price 09/19/12
Confused About Mac Pro Options? Consult With MPG 09/11/12
2012 MacBook Pro: Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads 09/11/12
A Fast and Silent Internal 960GB Clone Volume in my Mac Pro: OWC’s Mercury Electra Max SSD 09/05/12
iMac Deals at B&H Photo 09/05/12
OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for Thunderbolt Macs 09/04/12
Memory Price Trends for MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, MacMini 09/04/12

Aug 2012

Jul 2012

Mountain Lion — Switched on my Mac Pro, a few Glitches 07/31/12
Network Copy Errors (.DS_Store) with OS X Mountain Lion 07/28/12
Why I NEED 80GB or 96GB Memory in my Mac Pro: Photoshop CS6 Performance 07/25/12
Mac OS X Mountain Lion: Application Signing “unidentified developer” 07/25/12
Mac OS X Mountain Lion Notes 07/25/12
FOR SALE: my 17" MacBook Pro 07/22/12
Mac Pro 3.33 GHz 6-core Readily Available 07/19/12
Confused About Mac Pro Options? Consult With MPG 07/17/12
Lexar USB3 Card Reader Works on MacBook Pro with Lexar Firmware Update 07/13/12
MacBook Pro Retina Display — Screen Burn-in Absent on Replacement Unit 07/13/12
An Internal 960GB Clone Backup Volume 07/11/12
Mac OS X Mountain Lion Coming Soon (and some advice) 07/11/12
Verify/Repair a RAID Volume in Mac OS X Lion (Disk Utility won’t work) 07/10/12
Upgrade to 80GB Memory in My Mac Pro 07/10/12
How Fast is USB3 on the MacBook Pro 15"? 07/10/12
The Thieves at Microsoft — Again 07/09/12
Which 15" MacBook Pro to Get? Retina or non-Retina? 07/09/12
MacBook Pro 15" has two 6G SATA Ports that are Reliable and Fast 07/08/12
MacBook Pro 15" vs MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display 07/08/12
1.92TB of Fast SSD Storage in a 15" MacBook Pro 07/06/12
OWC Elite Pro Mini SSD on MacBook Pro Retina with USB3 = Blazing Fast 07/05/12
No New Mac Pro, so Helped a Client with a Top-End Windows PC 07/05/12
MacBook Pro Retina: Apple Addresses the Non-Upgradeable Memory Omission 07/04/12
MacBook Pro Retina SSD Speed 07/03/12
Zombie Messages on iPhone 07/03/12
MacBook Pro Retina Display — Screen Burn-In Problem Continues 07/03/12
OWC 8GB ECC Memory Modules for Mac Pro Now Mix 'n Match with 1/2/4 GB Apple and OWC Modules 07/03/12
Retina Display for Graphs and Similar 07/02/12
Store Your Data in the 'Cloud' ? 07/01/12
No Way to Lock MacBook Pro Retina? 07/01/12

Jun 2012

MacBook Pro Retina Display — Screen Burn-In — Ghost Images 06/23/12
Inadvertent Oversize Web Graphics look GREAT on a Retina Display 06/23/12
MPG Pro Workstation $250 OFF 06/22/12
OWC 960GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD — Breakthrough SSD Capacity! 06/22/12
MacBook Pro Retina 2.7 GHz — Memory Bandwidth Compared 06/21/12
The Thieves at Microsoft 06/21/12
Photoshop CS6— • MacBook Pro Retina 2.7 GHz vs • MacBook Pro 17" vs • Mac Pro 06/21/12
OWC Specs Drive Mechanisms in its Externals 06/21/12
MacBook Pro Retina: RAW Conversion to JPEG Speed vs MacBook Pro 17" 06/21/12
Does 1600 MHz Memory Offer Higher Performance than 1333 MHz Memory? 06/20/12
Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina 06/20/12
Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina 06/20/12
MacBook Pro Retina: Scaling and Display Area 06/20/12
Photoshop CS6: MacBook Pro Retina 2.7 GHz vs MacBook Pro 17" 2.5 GHz 06/20/12
MacBook Pro Retina Display — Glitches 06/20/12
MacBook Pro Retina Display — BREATHTAKING When Presented Correctly 06/19/12
MacBook Pro Retina First Impressions 06/19/12
MacBook Pro with Retina Display — Shipped! 06/18/12
Confused About Mac Pro Options? Consult With MPG 06/17/12
MPG Pro Workstation SPECIAL OFFER (Souped-up Mac Pro), $250 OFF 06/17/12
6G SSD Speed in June 2012 MacBook Pro 15" Optical Drive Bay 06/16/12
MacBook Pro Retina Display— Beautiful and Looks Bad Too 06/15/12
Battery Replacement Cost for MacBook Pro Retina 06/15/12
Have a MacBook Pro Retina For Testing Loan? 06/14/12
What Apple COULD Have At Least Done With the Mac Pro 06/13/12
Reader Comment: AppleCare? (and good deals for AppleCare) 06/13/12
MacBook Pro Retina Teardown 06/13/12
MacBook Pro Retina vs MacBook Pro 17" (or 13" or 15") 06/12/12
Apple to Professional Users: Screw You 06/12/12
Mac Pro 6-core Refurbished Unit More Expensive Than NEW Model 06/12/12
Apple Now Uses Sandforce SSDs in MacBook Air 06/12/12
Which Model of the MacBook Pro Retina? 06/12/12
Get a Better Deal on a MacBook Pro 13" 06/11/12
MacBook Pro Retina has SOLDERED MEMORY 06/11/12
Apple Mac Pro Non-Upgrade 06/11/12
MacBook Pro with Retina Display 06/11/12
Apple WWDC to Reveal New Stuff 06/11/12
Rumored Mac Pro and MacBook Pro Plan 06/09/12
Rumored Mac Pro New Features 06/07/12
Mac Pro Update Rumored to Be Imminent 06/05/12
Imprecision on Adobe Cloud 06/04/12
Memory Price Trends for MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, MacMini 06/03/12

May 2012

OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB 05/30/12
Using all 12 CPU Cores 05/28/12
Reader Comments: Mal wieder ein echt super Artikel 05/25/12
How Long to Convert 500 Nikon D800 14-bit NEF to JPEG? 05/25/12
Mac Pro Petition 05/25/12
Update on SoftRAID and Mac OS X 10.7.4 Volume Mounting 05/23/12
Dealing with Huge Photoshop Jobs — Actual Experience Today 05/19/12
Thoughts on new Apple MacBook Air (and possible MacBook Pro) 05/16/12
Apple iDevices Destroy Image Quality 05/14/12
Loathing for Microsoft — Product Key 05/11/12
Mac OS X 10.7.4: Apple Mail Rainbow Beachball 05/11/12
Issue with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Volume Mounting? 05/11/12
OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 240GB vs 480GB + RAID 05/06/12
OWC Accelsior PCIe SSD Reader Comment 05/05/12
Three Web Sites by Lloyd Chambers 05/05/12
OWC Mercury Accelsior 240GB / 480GB 05/01/12

Apr 2012

The Adobe Tax — CS6 Rent vs Upgrade 04/26/12
OWC Mercury Accelsior and System Feel 04/20/12
OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6 04/19/12
Memory Price Trends for MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, MacMini 04/18/12
OWC Garage Sale, including 48GB Memory for Mac Pro for $575 04/18/12
OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6 04/16/12
OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Blistering-fast Drive Performance 04/15/12
Which is the Fastest 2TB (or 1TB or 3TB) Hard Drive? 04/12/12
4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive in 3-way RAID-0 Stripe 04/11/12
Tested: 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive 04/10/12
New Mac Pro, Maybe Not For a While 04/08/12
Turn Off Java — Flashback Trojan Risk 04/05/12
4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive for 16TB Inside a Mac Pro 04/04/12

Mar 2012

4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive 03/31/12
OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 03/23/12
WOW! OWC 480GB SSD for only $599 03/21/12
Memory Price Trends for Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Pro, MacMini 03/19/12
Memory Usage with Photoshop CS5 03/19/12
It’s About Time for a New Mac Pro 03/19/12
Vote for your Favorite Peripheral Vendor — Reader’s Choice Awards 03/16/12

Feb 2012

OWC SSD Updater and MacBook Pro DataDoubler 02/25/12
MPG Pro Workstation Solution with OWC PCIe SSD 02/21/12
Memory Price Trends for Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Pro, MacMini 02/21/12
How OS X Sandboxing Affects Developers 02/20/12
Dinosaur 02/19/12
ZFS for Mac OS X — ZEVO 02/18/12
Apple Account Hackers 02/17/12
Tested: 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 'Coolspin' Hard Drive 02/17/12
What Are the Implications for Application Signing? 02/16/12
The iOS-ification of Mac OS X — Mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' — Feeling Like Prey Now 02/16/12
Hitachi Coolspin 4TB Hard Drive 02/16/12
Seagate Barracuda XT SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache Hard Drive w/ 5 Year Warranty 02/11/12
Buy Mac Pro Now, or Wait? 02/10/12
diglloydTools beta Now Available for Download 02/10/12
The iOS-ification of Mac OS X 02/06/12
Seafood for your Valentine? 02/06/12
Working on diglloydTools Update 02/05/12

Jan 2012

2011

Dec 2011

New Year’s Seafood (or Steak) 12/30/11
An SSD-based MPG Pro Workstation Design with Fault-tolerant Time Machine Backup 12/23/11
Stocking Stuffers and Gifts 12/20/11
Price for MacBook Pro 16B Memory Plunges (or 32GB for iMac) 12/17/11
Mac Pro Now, or Wait? 12/17/11
Computers, Cameras, or taxes? Section 179 Full Write-Off for Small Businesses 12/14/11
Installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on an Apple Mac Pro That Shipped with Lion 12/10/11
Deals: Memory Prices for MacBook Pro Plummet, OWC Offers Free Shipping for over $29 orders 12/09/11
NewerTech Power2U Wall Outlet with Dual USB Charging Ports 12/09/11
OWC Warranty Service on iMac Modifications 12/08/11
Hard Disk Drive Price Trends 12/07/11
No New Mac Pro Yet, Which Means What? 12/03/11
Memory Price Trends Graphs Updated 12/01/11
End of Life for the Apple Mac Pro? Still no word from Apple 12/01/11

Nov 2011

MPG Reader Special Prices at OWC — even lower than Black Friday prices 11/26/11
Black Friday Specials at OWC 11/25/11
Black Friday Specials at Apple 11/25/11
Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester 11/16/11
The Adobe Shake-Down 11/12/11
Memory Price Trend Graphs Updated 11/12/11
OWC Comments on the Hard Drive Availability Situation 11/12/11
MacBook Pro 17" 2.5 GHz In the Field vs MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13" 11/11/11
MacBook Pro Dies In Its Sleep— Runs Hot and Goes Dead 11/11/11
Memory and Hard Drive Prices: Win Some, Lose Some 11/01/11
Apple MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Quad-Core with 16GB Memory 11/01/11
End of Life for the Apple Mac Pro? 11/01/11

Oct 2011

First Look: Apple MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz 10/31/11
OWC’s SSD Updater 10/28/11
MacBook Pro 17" 2.5GHz On The Way 10/28/11
Apple iPhone 4S Experience 10/27/11
MacBook Pro Speed Bump: Faster Than Ever— Make it Even Faster and Save Some Money 10/24/11
Hard Drive Prices Bump Up Due to Flooding in Asia 10/24/11
Accounting Software for Mac 10/22/11
For Sale: my MacBook Air 1.7 GHz 10/21/11
Forgot the Mac’s Admin Password? 10/21/11
Apple iPhone 4S Issues and Comments 10/20/11
Price Drop for 8GB Modules for MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro 10/19/11
Price History of Memory for Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac Memory 10/11/11
Yes, diglloydTools Works on Mac OS X Lion (and Mountain Lion) 10/10/11
Backup and Backup Drives for Photographers 10/09/11
I’ve ordered my iPhone 4S, and What About Two Networks at Once? 10/08/11
Mercury Aura Pro 6G SSD for MacBook Air Impressions 10/06/11
MacBook Air USB Problems 10/05/11
My Mac Consulting Can Save You Money and Protect Your Data 10/05/11
Mac Pro 48GB Memory Kit Now Under $1000 10/03/11
Bottom Near for MacBook Pro Memory Prices? 10/03/11
Apple iMac Memory Prices Flatten 10/03/11
Where to Buy a Mac Pro or MacBook Pro 10/03/11

Sep 2011

Mercury Aura Pro 6G SSD for MacBook Air 09/16/11
Mac OS X Lion and Full Screen Mode 09/15/11
Apple EFI Firmware Update Fixes Some SATA 6G Problems? 09/15/11
New Mac Pro Late in 2011 or Early 2012? 09/11/11
An Impressive Experience At The Apple Store With the iPhone 09/10/11
Memory Prices Stabilize for Apple iMac 09/09/11
Memory Prices Stabilize for MacBook Pro 09/09/11
Memory Prices Stabilize for Mac Pro 09/09/11
OWC Releases Mac-based Firmware Updater for OWC Mercury SSDs 09/02/11

Aug 2011

My All-SSD Mac Pro System 08/30/11
Limited Time Special — $200 off MPG Pro Workstation Through August 31 08/18/11
Mac OS X Lion: Unable to Print With Epson Stylus Pro 3800 08/17/11
Get 16GB of Memory for Apple iMac for Only $148! 08/15/11
Big Price Drop on OWC 16GB Memory Kit for Apple Macbook Pro 08/15/11
One Good Reason to use SoftRAID — Predicting Drive Failure 08/14/11
My MacBook Pro 17" Has Gone Back to Apple for A Full Refund 08/14/11
My Killer-fast Mac Pro System Based on Solid State Drives (SSD) 08/13/11
FOR SALE: Atto R380 RAID Card + CiDesign iStorage Pro + 8 X 2TB Hard Drives 08/11/11
No New Mac Pro, As Makes Sense in Context 08/11/11
Apple Lion Recovery Disk Assistant — But There is a BETTER WAY 08/09/11
Memory Prices Stabilize for Mac Pro 08/09/11
Memory Prices Drop for MacBook Pro 08/09/11
My Consulting Services Might Save You Time and Money and Also Get You the Right System for Your Needs 08/08/11
Mac OS X Lion Hairballs 08/08/11
Restoring a Failed Firewire 800 Port 08/08/11
MPG Pro Workstation and MPG Pro Laptop Programs NOW AVAILABLE 08/01/11

Jul 2011

To the Summit of White Mountain Peak 07/26/11
Mac OS X Lion and diglloydTools 07/24/11
Software RAID Works on Lion, But Apple Has Broken Basic Functionality 07/23/11
OWC Mercury Elite Pro External Drive 07/23/11
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini Bus-Powered Portable External Drive (Hard Drive or SSD) 07/23/11
Why No New Mac Pro? 07/21/11
Protocol for Upgrading to Mac OS X Lion 07/21/11
Apple OS X 'Lion' Comments 07/20/11
Apple’s July 2011 MacBook Air 07/20/11
Mac Memory Prices Slump Some More 07/14/11
OWC 480GB in 2010 Mac Pro, Single SSD, and RAID-0 of 2 or 3 SSDs 07/04/11
Sustained Transfer Speed — OWC 480GB 6G SSD in 2011 MacBook Pro, 6G Port 07/04/11
OWC 480GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD With Photoshop CS5 on 2011 Mac Pro 07/04/11
My 17" MacBook Pro Lemon Still Has SATA 6G Problems 07/04/11
OWC 480GB 6G SSDs Coming For Testing 07/02/11

Jun 2011

MPG Pro Workstation and MPG Pro Laptop Programs on Hold Due to New California Affiliate Law 06/30/11
Mac Memory Prices Continue to Drop 06/27/11
Thunderbolt Peripherals To Remain Pricey Until 2012 06/25/11
Final Cut Pro X Usage of CPU Cores and Memory 06/24/11
Rumor Mill In Full Swing for new Mac Pro 06/21/11
Which Mac Pro for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.x? 06/18/11
Solid State Drives — Brand Caveat Emptor 06/14/11
Mac Pro Memory Prices Drop Some More 06/08/11
2011 MacBook Pro: Will Apple Fix the 6G SATA Bugs? 06/07/11
The All-SSD Mac Pro 06/07/11
OWC Retroactively Adds Two Years More To Warranty for Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs For Total of Five (5) Years 06/06/11
Securing Your Mac — More Pages Added 06/05/11
Whither Thunderbolt? 06/02/11
Three Web Sites by Lloyd Chambers 06/01/11
Basic Steps for Safer Computing 06/01/11
Memory Price Trends for Mac Pro and MacBook Pro and iMac 06/01/11

May 2011

Apr 2011

Mar 2011

Intel 510 SATA III 6 Gbps SSD Fails to Format in 2011 Apple MacBook Pro 03/30/11
How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups 03/28/11
Is Your Mac Slow to Boot Up? 03/28/11
In Transit for Testing: Intel 510 SATA III 6 Gbps SSD 03/28/11
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 115GB Solid State Drive With 25nm Flash, Reviewed 03/26/11
Opening Up An OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 03/23/11
OWC SSDs and Sleep with MacBook Pro 03/23/11
Anti-virus on Mac OS X— Vulnerabilities 03/22/11
Mac OS X 10.6.7 Update Fixes Black Screen Issue For NEC Displays 03/22/11
AT&T Extorts More Money For iPhone Data Already Paid For, Threatens To Cut Access 03/22/11
OWC Transitions to 25nm Flash Memory With Big Price Drop for 480GB SSD at $920 03/21/11
Hibernate Mode With OWC SSDs, and All Sandforce-based SSDs 03/21/11
The Changing Solid State Drive Landscape 03/20/11
Final Cut Pro Dropped Frames and Anti-Virus Software on Mac OS X 03/19/11
New Intel Xeon E3 Chips For Servers or Possibly the Mac Pro 03/19/11
Do OCZ Solid State Drives Contain Tier 2 Flash Memory? 03/18/11
OWC Begins Transition to 25nm Flash Memory With Big Price Drop for 400GB SSD 03/18/11
How to Get a Mac Pro at 3.46 GHz with 6 or 12 CPU Cores 03/15/11
Backing Up Your Mac — Keep It Safe, and No, Time Machine is NOT Enough 03/15/11
Yet Another Adobe Flash “Critical” Security Flaw 03/15/11
OWC Updates Mercury Elite-AL Pro Line With a Whopping 3TB Model 03/15/11
Extending Battery Life on the Apple MacBook Pro by Disabling Discrete Graphics 03/13/11
Making a RAID-1 Mirror with SoftRAID 4 03/13/11
MacBook Pro With 16GB Makes All the Difference for Big Jobs 03/10/11
2011 MacBook Pro Tests Updated To Include 2.8GHz Mac Pro — Wow! 03/10/11
Photoshop CS5 Tests Updated for 16GB Memory in MacBook Pro, 2.8GHz Mac Pro 03/09/11
Is 32GB for iMac Coming Next? 03/09/11
Photoshop CS5 Tests Updated for 16GB Memory in MacBook Pro, 2.8GHz Mac Pro 03/09/11
iPad: ”Could Not Check For an Update to the Carrier Settings” 03/09/11
Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” for Mac Pro CPU? 03/08/11
“Secret” Firmware Update Allows 2008 MacBook Pro to use 8GB Memory 03/07/11
Memory, CPU and Compute Speed Results for 2011 MacBook Pro 2.3Ghz 4-Core 03/07/11
Results for Bibble Pro and Aperture added to 2011 MacBook Pro 4-core Review 03/06/11
Apple SSD TRIM Status on Mac OS X 10.6.6 With 2011 MacBook Pro 03/05/11
More 2011 MacBook Pro Test Results 03/04/11
Tests of 2011 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 4-Core vs 2010 2.66 GHz 2-core, Mac Pro 03/03/11
Noisy APC BR1500G Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) 03/01/11

Feb 2011

AppleCare and USA Macs Outside the USA 02/28/11
New Apple MacBook Pro SATA Ports— SATA 6Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s 02/28/11
Intel Announces SSD 510 with up to 500MB/sec Read Speed, 315 MB/sec Write Speed 02/28/11
NEC PA301W 30" Wide Gamut Display 02/28/11
NEC Offers DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort Cable PA-MDP-CABL to Resolve Sleep Issues With Multiple Displays 02/28/11
Buying a New MacBook Pro or Other Mac? 02/27/11
Astonishingly FAST Solid State Drives (SSD) Coming Soon 02/26/11
Upgrading MacBook Pro Memory Does Not Affect the Apple Warranty 02/26/11
Key Feature Differences with the 13/15/17-inch MacBook Pro Models 02/26/11
Configuring the 2011 Quad-Core Apple MacBook Pro 02/26/11
Apple Now Offers 8GB Memory Modules for Mac Pro 02/26/11
Thoughts on Thunderbolt 02/25/11
The 2011 Quad-Core Apple MacBook Pro 02/25/11
Moving from 34nm to 25nm NAND flash Chips for SSDs 02/16/11
Photoshop Performance: Beware of Memory Usage and Mac OS X Cache 02/15/11
Apple 27" LED Cinema Display — Short Cable Means Useless Toy 02/14/11
WindInMyFace.com — New Road Biking Site Now up 02/11/11
OWC Mount Pro for Installing 2.5" Hard Drive or SSD Into Mac Pro Drive Bays 02/10/11
Get your 8-core 3.46 GHz Mac Pro Today! 02/09/11
Mac Pro: How Many CPU Cores? 02/04/11

Jan 2011

OWC Guardian MAXimus Mini and Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Mini 01/31/11
MPG Pro Workstation @ 2.93GHz, 12GB, 4 X 2TB, 120GB SSD, more for $3999 01/28/11
Memory Prices at rock bottom for Apple Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac 01/28/11
When More Is Less — 12 CPU Cores are Slower Than 6 CPU Cores with Photoshop 01/27/11
Update on Mac Pro Video Card Sleep Issue and Mini DisplayPort Cables — FIXED 01/25/11
iPhone and Zombie Emails, Verizon iPhone 01/23/11
Mac Pro bargain still available at $1799 01/23/11
Thoughts on the future of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air 01/23/11
How To Follow Your Stocks Efficiently 01/19/11
MPG Pro Workstation and MPG Pro Laptop Can Ship Overseas to Most Countries 01/15/11
Hard Drive Noise 01/15/11
Inexpensive Apple Mac Pro as a File Server for Home or Small Business 01/14/11
Apple MacBook Air Reviewed, Especially For Photographers 01/09/11
Join our Alerts List, Get the RSS feed too, Follow on Twitter 01/08/11
How to View Disk Usage, Reclaiming Wasted Cache Space 01/07/11
SPECIAL DEAL on a 2009 Mac Pro 2.93GHz as an MPG Pro Workstation 01/05/11
Why Is My Backup Taking so #$*#$#*$* Long? 01/04/11
Photography Sister Site — diglloyd.com 01/03/11
Why I Always Have At Least 24GB memory (and why a 16GB iMac doesn’t cut it) 01/03/11

2010

Dec 2010

Two Compact and Portable Choices for Mirrored or Striped External Storage 12/29/10
OWC QX2 RAID now with up to 12TB 12/29/10
Cameras, computers or taxes? Section 179 Deduction for Businesses 12/27/10
OWC Year End Deals and Mailing List 12/27/10
Spend $$ instead of $$$$$$ on a Mac Pro 12/19/10
Update on Mac Pro Video Card Sleep Issue and DisplayPort Cables 12/19/10
Cameras, computers or taxes? Section 179 Deduction for Businesses 12/16/10
Holiday Deals at OWC 12/15/10
You Can Get AppleCare Anytime Within the First Year — and Here’s a Deal 12/15/10
Solid State Drive (SSD) Price Trends 12/14/10
Site Overhaul — Please Report Any Bad Links or Other Issues 12/11/10
NewerTech Guardian Maximus 3TB RAID-1 Mirror for Fault Tolerance 12/11/10
Update on Memory Prices for Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac 12/11/10
Update on Mac Pro Video Card Sleep Issue and DisplayPort Cables 12/11/10
Memory Price Trend: 8GB Modules for Mac Pro 12/02/10
MacBook Air Solid State Drive (SSD) Performance 12/02/10
Higher Capacity Hard Drives Are Faster 12/01/10

Nov 2010

Reviewed: Seagate 500GB Momentus XT Hybrid Laptop Hard Drive 11/30/10
AT&T Customer Service = Oxymoron 11/29/10
Memory Prices Plummet — Save $465 on 8GB MacBook Pro Memory Save $1000 on 12GB Mac Pro Memory 11/28/10
Cameras, computers or taxes? Section 179 Deduction for Businesses 11/26/10
Black Friday (and Thursday) specials at OWC 11/25/10
Spend $$ instead of $$$$$$ on a Mac Pro 11/25/10
Hitachi 3TB 7K3000 Reviewed in Depth — Fastest 7200rpm SATA Drive Yet! 11/24/10
Update on 2010 Mac Pro Display Sleep problems with Mini DisplayPort 11/23/10
Hitachi 7K3000 for 3TB of Storage on a Single Drive 11/21/10
Review and How-To: Novatel Wireless MiFi 2372 3G Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot 11/13/10
Tested: Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 vs Western Digital RE4 in iStoragePro SAS Enclosure w/ Atto R380 11/11/10
Reader feedback: Thanks for Saving Me $6000 11/10/10
Photoshop — Permissions Will Not Let Photoshop Use the Volume for Scratch 11/08/10
Reader feedback: Upgraded my New Mac Pro 4-core According to Your Suggestions 11/08/10
Join our Alerts List, Get the RSS feed too, Follow on Twitter 11/07/10
Fast Reliable Hardware RAID with the iStoragePro 8-Bay Enclosure + Atto R380 RAID card 11/07/10
Reader comment: Mac Pro or iMac? 11/06/10
$150 off Standard MPG Pro Workstation “Burly” Through November 12th 11/06/10
Case Study: Upgrading the 2010 MacBook Pro for Photoshop and Lightroom 11/06/10
Adobe Lightroom 3.2 Import bug solved — aliases and symbolic links followed as “subfolders” 11/05/10
Adobe Lightroom 3.2 bug for image Import 11/05/10
Single greatest influence and resource 11/03/10
Spend $$ instead of $$$$$$ on a Mac Pro 11/01/10

Oct 2010

Reader Feedback on Mac Pro Setup and more 10/30/10
MacBook Air — Comparing to MacBook Pro 13" 10/29/10
Mac Performance Guide - I figure you saved me at least $2500 10/24/10
MPG Pro Workstation satisfied customer 10/13/10
Hot deal on brand-new 2009 Mac Pro 10/13/10
OWC announces PCIe SSD solution for 2011 with up to 3.2TB at 4GB/sec speeds 10/11/10
NEC posts tech note on Mac Pro video issues 10/09/10
Where to buy a Mac Pro 10/09/10

Sep 2010

How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups — User Comment 09/29/10
User Delighted with Photoshop CS5 Optimization 09/24/10
How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups 09/21/10
Setting up Your Mac — Put Adobe Flash on a Leash 09/21/10
Apple 27" Cinema Display 09/18/10
Update on Video Issues with Mac Pro 09/16/10
Get a DEAL on a Brand-new 2009 Mac Pro 2.66GHz 09/16/10
Making Sharp Images, Zeiss Guide, Lens and Camera Reviews, Digital Infrared 09/12/10
Photoshop CS5 Scalability and Low-hanging Fruit 09/10/10
“Your Mac Performance Guide is by far one of the best articles I've ever read in regards to understanding how a computer works” 09/10/10
Hot Corners to Work Around Black-screen Video Problem on Mac Pro 09/10/10
Video Card Problems with 2010 Mac Pro 09/09/10
Setting Up Your Mac 09/06/10
PTGui with a RAM Disk Goes Like Stink! 09/06/10
Bibble Pro Speed With a RAM Disk 09/06/10
Mac Pro 3.2GHz Added to 2010 Mac Pro Review 09/05/10
Mac Pro 12-core Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame 09/05/10
OWC Mac Pro CPU Upgrade Program Now Online for 2009 and 2010 Mac Pro 09/04/10
Apple 512GB (500GB) Solid State Drive (SSD) Put To the Severe Duty Test 09/04/10
Upgrade Your Mac Pro CPU to 3.33GHz and/or More CPU Cores! 09/02/10
“Godzilla” Mac Pro for Image Retouchers, Photo Labs and Lucky You 09/02/10
When More is Less — 12 Cores and 48GB are Slower Than 6 Cores and 24GB with Photoshop CS5! 09/02/10
2010 Mac Pro 12-core @ 3.33GHz — Reviewed! 09/02/10
How to Cut Handbrake Video Encoding Time by 40%! 09/02/10
Whither 16-bit in Photoshop? 09/01/10

Aug 2010

My Mac Pro 2.93GHz 8-core is For Sale 08/31/10
2010 Mac Pro Remains Bus-limited With More than Two Fast Solid State Drives 08/30/10
Optimizing Apple Aperture Import by 28% With One Click 08/30/10
More Coming on 2010 Mac Pro 08/30/10
2010 Mac Pro Hexacore 3.33GHz “Westmere” Updated — 2.4GHz 8-core model 08/27/10
2010 Mac Pro Hexacore 3.33GHz “Westmere” Reviewed and Compared 08/22/10
MacPro 2010 3.33GHz 6-core “Westmere” vs Mac Pro 2009 3.33GHz 4-core “Nehalem” — Testing Underway 08/20/10
My MacPro 3.33GHz Hexacore Less than an Hour’s Drive Away 08/20/10
It’s Official —16/24/ 32GB in 2010 Mac Pro 4/6-Core 08/19/10
How to Preview and Sort 2000 Images Fast 08/19/10
My MacPro 3.33GHz Hexacore on Its Way (Shipped) 08/17/10
OpenGL Sometimes Slower than Just Disabling it 08/12/10
Memory for 2010 Mac Pro at OWC 08/12/10
2010 Mac Pro in Stores Today? 08/12/10
Why I Adore My NEC 27" Wide-Gamut Display 08/11/10
2010 Mac Pro 4/6-core Processors — Why There is a 16GB Memory Limit (maybe, maybe not) 08/10/10
Mac Pro Delivery Scheduled for ~ August 26 08/10/10
16GB LIMIT for 4-core and 6-core Mac Pro? 32GB limit for 8/12-core Mac Pro? 08/09/10
Apple MacPro 6-core 3.33 GHz “Westmere” Ordered for Testing 08/09/10
How to Mitigate 2010 Mac Pro 4/6-core Memory Limits 08/09/10
Mac Pro 4-core, 6-core, 8-core, 12-core Models Available for Order 08/09/10
My iMac 27" is Off to OWC for the MPG Pro One Upgrade — What I Ordered 08/08/10
Mac Pro CPU Power Estimates for Best Case/Reasonable Expectations/Murphy’s Law 08/08/10
Apple 27-inch iMac Compared to 3.33GHz Mac Pro for RAW-file Processing 08/08/10
Apple 2010 27" iMac — Upgrading, Performance, Cores and Clock Speed, and Avoid that SSD Option 08/07/10
New Sites for diglloydTools, MPG Pro Workstation, MPG Pro Laptop, MPG Pro One 08/07/10
Join our Alerts List, Get the RSS feed too, Follow on Twitter 08/07/10
Final Cut Studio — How to Test? 08/05/10
MPG Pro One™ NOW AVAILABLE (pro-grade 2010 iMac 27") 08/04/10
Mac Pro August 2010 Pricing Estimates — Ouch! 08/01/10
How to Follow My Coverage and Reviews of the New MAC PRO and iMac 08/01/10

Jul 2010

Screen Garbling 07/31/10
How Photoshop CS5 Saves Me Time (and how it wastes my time too) 07/31/10
OWC a la Carte Upgrades for iMac, including eSATA, Memory, SSD option 07/31/10
New! MPG Pro One™ (pro-grade iMac) 07/31/10
Getting the Right Mac Pro for Your Needs, Pre-configured, Pre-Tested and Ready to Use 07/30/10
Mac Pro — Which Model for Photography, Video, Sound? 07/30/10
Mac Pro: 4/6/8/12 Cores for Sound Processing? 07/29/10
Pricing and Valuing the iMac Against the Mac Pro 07/28/10
Memory Upgrades — How Does Your Vendor Test? 07/27/10
Analysis of the new August 2010 Mac Pro 07/27/10
Apple’s SSD for Mac Pro (or iMac) — Not a Smart Move 07/27/10
New Apple Mac Pro! The “Westmere” hexacore chip arrives! 07/27/10
Apple’s SSD for iMac (dual internal drives) 07/27/10
Apple Mac Pro update — Coming soon? 07/24/10
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3.3 Cautionary Advice When Cloning to a Larger Volume 07/17/10
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB Hard Drive. Fast! 07/16/10
Speed of internal SATA Ports with Mac OS X 07/16/10
OWC offers 30-day Money-back Guarantee on Mercury Extreme Pro SSD 07/16/10
Install a 5th Drive Into the Mac Pro 07/16/10
What About Apple’s 512GB Solid State Drive (SSD)? 07/16/10
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 480GB and 240GB Solid State Drives (SSD) 07/15/10
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE 400GB Solid State Drive (SSD) 07/11/10
Join our Mailing List, Get the RSS feed too, Follow on Twitter 07/11/10
Fastest Ever! Western Digital RE4 2TB Enterprise Grade 'RAID Edition' hard drive w/ 64MB Cache 07/10/10
NewerTech StoraDrive™ for Bare Hard Drive Storage 07/08/10
Connecting a MacBook Pro or iMac or Mac Pro to a DisplayPort Monitor (Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable) 07/08/10
Why I disable OpenGL in Photoshop CS5 07/02/10

Jun 2010

Photoshop CS5 Crashing With OS X 10.6.4 with ATI Radeon 4870 and OpenGL on Mac Pro 06/30/10
Apple Mac Pro update — When? 06/30/10
Reviewed: NEC 27-inch professional wide gamut color display 06/28/10
Converting to a Larger Time Machine volume, and a Faster One Too! 06/25/10
Dual internal Drives in a MacBook Pro with “OWC Data Doubler” Bracket 06/22/10
Big Price Drop on 8GB Memory Modules 06/15/10
Cost Effective Reliable Backup and Storage 06/15/10
Get the Right Mac Pro for your Needs 06/15/10
So-long Photoshop CS4 06/15/10
Jobs silent on hexacore Mac Pro at WWDC 06/07/10

May 2010

How to save 8GB of space on your MacBook Pro boot drive! 05/30/10
Speed and reliability in your MacBook Pro When Traveling — Solid State Drives (SSD) 05/29/10
Restoring solid state drive performance with DiskTester ‘recondition’ 05/29/10
How to subscribe to an RSS feed 05/28/10
Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester 05/28/10
Severe duty test: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 240GB vs Intel 160GB G2 05/27/10
Memory prices drop for MacBook Pro 8GB kit 05/27/10
Should You Opt for Apple’s solid state drive? 05/26/10
Why you need more space than you need! 05/25/10
Using Apple Time Machine for Backup 05/25/10
Newer Technology Guardian Maximum 2TB RAID-1 Mirror for Plug and Play Reliability 05/23/10
Choosing a Mac Pro— will you make an expensive mistake or the right choice? 05/23/10
Mac Pro hexacore and dodecacore coming in June? 05/22/10
Fast and ample storage in a MacBook Pro with 480GB SSD and 1TB HDD 05/22/10
MacBook Pro Core i7 anti-glare screen in stock at B&H Photo 05/22/10
eSATA for the MacBook Pro (or Windows/Linux) 05/17/10
MacBook Pro SSD single drive and RAID stripe vs hard drive 05/14/10
Apple Mac Pro Nehalem: quad-core @ 3.33GHz or 8-core @ 2.93GHz? 05/12/10
OWC announces new solid state drive capacities of 120/240/400/480GB 05/11/10

Apr 2010

Mar 2010

OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance MPG Pro Workstations 03/31/10

Outstanding 6G SSD Performance!

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