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Review: 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 2.5″ Notebook Drive

Maybe it’s part of getting older. When the idea of solid state hard drives first emerged a few years ago, there was some hesitancy on my part. Not quite the smashing of all available nearby looms, but some hesitancy. This was a new thing, a hard drive made entirely of flash memory with no moving […]

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Apple shows signs of implementing TRIM features in latest 13″ MacBook Pro notebook

This is sort of unexpected but interesting. Per AnandTech, the current-run 13″ MacBook Pro notebook may be showing that Apple is implementing TRIM support for solid-state drives in Mac OS X. Attaching an SSD to the 2010 system will show an entry for “TRIM support” that doesn’t exist on the Core i5 or i7 MacBook […]

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How-To: Add a Second Hard Drive to Your Unibody MacBook Pro

Ok, you love your unibody MacBook Pro notebook, aren’t terribly attached the optical drive and the warranty isn’t that important…odds are you’re ready to hack in a second hard drive. Per this hack, a user faced the dilemma of getting the faster SSD hard drive or the larger capacity rotational drive. Instead of settling on […]

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OWC Offers New Pricing, Options for Modbook Notebook

On Wednesday, Other World Computing announced new memory and storage options for its Axiotron Modbooks along with a US$200 price reduction on new units. According to MacNN, performance upgrades that are currently available include up to 6GB of memory, up to 820GB storage or 160GB of SSD storage, and a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor. […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Solid State Disk show promise for notebooks, tablets

sandisk-ssd-uata-5000.jpgOne of the most exciting announcements I’ve seen in the run up to Macworld Expo and CES (who’s the genius that scheduled these over each other anyway?) is the Solid State Disk or “SSD.”