OWC Hot Deals Blast April 17th, 2009

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The Featured Five - Latest/Best Selling Offers

#1 Brand New Hitachi Rebates up to $20 per drive, up to $80 per solution!
1.0TB SATA 3.5" from $75.00, Notebook 320GB 7200RPM HD $55.00, Notebook 500GB HD $85.00
Check out all the available Hitachi rebate options on drives and solutions up to 4.0TB online here.

#2
Exceptional Savings on Award Winning Prosoft Drive Genius and Data Rescue:
Buy Prosoft Drive Genius v2.x (latest) for $99 $59.00
Buy prosoft Data Rescue v2.x (latest) for $99 $55.00 or Both of them for $198 $99.00!
Or - Buy Drive Genius v2.x for as low as $25.00 (74% off Prosoft Retail!) with the purchase
of a Qualifying OWC or NewerTech Storage Product (Special Offer!)

#3
NewerTech Voyager Hard Drive Dock Kits, Bundles with up to 2.0TB hard drives from $49.99
Plug and Play 2.5" and 3.5" Drives via FireWire 800/400,USB2, and/or eSATA- Great Upgradable Storage Solution + a great option for data transfer when needed too.
Still have some new, open box FireWire 800/400+USB2+eSATA Dock models for $79.00, $15.99 off!

#4 Quality LCDs Built by Dell, Tested & Backed for Mac by OWC - Save!
22" LCD w/DVI & VGA up to 1680x1050 High-Efficiency 'Green' LED Tech - $239 $179.00
23" LCD w/DVI, HDMI, VGA to 2048x1152 w/2MP WebCam, USB2 Hub for $379 $285.00
24" LCD w/DVI, HDMI, VGA up to 1920x1080 for $299 $245.00
Brand New and backed by a full 3 Year Dell Factory Warranty + OWC Guaranteed.

#5 Adding More memory can be better than buying a new Mac - 4.0GB Kits from $49
Memory prices are starting to slowly creep up - but even at twice the price, what a bargain!


More Capacity, More Performance, Lower Cost Per Gig for HD Storage

While you may be primarily adding a new drive or replacing an existing internal drive for the purpose of more storage capacity, today's drives also provide additional benefits. Even compared to drives from just a year ago, today's latest drive models are much Faster and more Power Efficient. To look at Notebook Drives - if you still have the factory stock drive in there or it's been a while since you did change the hard drive, today's 7200RPM drives use less power vs. 5400RPM from just 2yrs ago and today's 5400RPM drives are actually faster than 7200RPM drives from 1 to 2 years ago. Faster, Quieter, greener and less cost per gig!

#1 Serial-ATA (SATA) 2.5" Notebook drives for MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini Intel

320GB 7200RPM Hitachi 7K320 16MB Cache now $55.00 After $20 Hitachi Rebate!
#1 Best Seller! DIY Kits for Data Transfer + use old drive as external from $84.99 After Rebate

*NEW* 500GB 5400RPM Hitachi 5K500.B 8MB Cache with 3yr Warranty $85.00 After $10 Rebate
There is currently no Faster or Greener 500GB 5400RPM 2.5" on the Market!
This drive is also available in Do-It-Yourself Bundles from $114.99 After Rebate

See all Notebook SATA 2.5" Options.

#2 IDE/ATA (PATA) 2.5" Notebook drives for PowerBook, iBook, & Mac mini G4
Options now available for up to 320GB of Internal Capacity! *Note, models made before 2002 will be limited to recognizing only up to 128GB of capacity when drives 160GB and larger are installed*

 80GB Seagate LD25.2 5400RPM ATA 2MB Cache HD w/5yr Warranty - $44.99

160GB Seagate Momentus 5400RPM ATA 8MB Cache HD w/3yr Warranty $61.99

250GB WD Scorpio 5400RPM ATA 8MB Cache HD w/3yr Warranty - $92.50

*NEW* 320GB WD Scorpio 5400RPM ATA 8MB Cache HD 3yr Warranty - $119.99

See full selection of 2.5" IDE/ATA HD Options from $39.99.

#3 Serial-ATA (SATA) 3.5" Internal HDs for Mac Pro, PowerMac G5 & G4*, iMac G5, iMac
Intel. *PowerMac G4 owners can use SATA HDs with PCI SATA HD Controller.
Mac Pro Owners - you've got 4 SATA HD Bays ready for plug and play!

500GB 7200RPM Hitachi DeskStar P7K500 16MB Cache with 3yr Warranty - $58.75

1.0TB 7200RPM Hitachi 7K1000.B DS 7200RPM 16MB Cache 3yr Warranty - $75.00*
Fast, Power Efficient, Great Price! *After $10 Hitachi Rebate

1.0TB 7200RPM Hitachi E7K1000 32MB Cache Enterprise 5yr Warranty $154.99
Enterprise Class + Best of Class Performance, Energy Efficiency, Quiet

1.5TB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32MB Cache 3yr Warranty - $147.99

See all 3.5" Serial ATA Hard Drives now up to 2TB, Controller Cards, & More.

#4 IDE/ATA (PATA) 3.5" drives for PowerMac, iMac, eMac models with G3 or G4 Processor.
Note - Models made prior to 2002 are only able to address up to 128GB of formatted
capacity when a drive over 128GB is connected to the built-in IDE/ATA controller. Use
of most hard drive controller cards or adding additional needed storage via FireWire
avoids this limitation and allows for the full capacity hard drive storage capacity.

160GB WD Caviar 7200RPM 8MB Cache New w/3yr Warranty $39.99

400GB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache with 120 Day Warranty $57.99
These are pulls that are practically brand new and a good deal

500GB 7200RPM Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 8MB w/3yr Warranty $79.99
Super Fast + Low Power too - Highest Capacity IDE/ATA Currently Available.

See all IDE/ATA 3.5" options with up to 750GB currently in stock.

#5 Performance Plug n' Play FireWire/USB/eSATA External Solutions:
Included with these external, plug & play models are connecting cables for the interfaces they support + about $200 in retail software applications that includes Prosoft DataBackup3 for OSX, NovaStor NovaBackup for Windows, Carbon Copy Cloner for OS X, and Intech HD Speedtools utility suite for OS 9/OS X. Solutions are Great for A/V, Backup + Time Machine Ready, photos, music, fully bootable.

1.0TB FireWire, Firewire+USB2, FireWire 800/400,USB2,eSATA from $124.99 After Rebate

Special Hitachi E7K1000 Enterprise 7200RPM Equipped 1TB to 4TB from $177.99*
Already an exceptional price point for Enterprise before the rebate, the additional $20 per drive savings (up to $80 back for a solution) via Hitachi Mail-In Rebate makes it even more outstanding. The E7K1000 is Hitachi's latest Enterprise line up that provides incredible Performance, outstanding Reliability, extremely low power consumption.

750GB NewerTech miniStack FW400+USB2 & Powered Hubs Solution - $159.99

Special NewerTech Voyager Drive Dock Bundles - Voyager SATA Dock + HD
Hitachi 1.0TB + Voyager 'Q' FW800/400+USB2+eSATA for $165.00 after $10 Rebate
Hitachi 1.0TB + Voyager 'S2' USB 2.0+eSATA for $115.00 after $10 Rebate

2.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro FW800/400+USB2+eSATA RAID - $292.50
*NEW* High Performance RAID, Quad-Interfaces - over 200MB/S via eSATA!


DataRobotics 'Drobo' - 4-Bay FireWire800/400+USB2 Hot-Swap Redundant Kits
This is a product that definitely has appeal to those with a certain set of goals. Essentially, the Drobo allows you to add and hot swap a mix of up to four Serial ATA 3.5" Hard Drives. It's proprietary 'robotic' intelligence will map the drives to offer a combined volume capacity and with built in redundancy that allows the loss of drive to not cause loss of data. When you pull a drive out and add a new drive, it automatically remaps the data and re-sizes the total hard drive volume capacity accordingly. This is not a solution for Audio/Video capture, etc - but for those that seek flexible use of different hard drives with data redundancy, the Drobo seems to have hit the mark.

Drobo 4-Bay FireWire 800/400+USB2 Storage solution - $499 $409.00*After $40 Data Robitics Rebate (Visa Gift Card)
DroboShare NAS Expansion applicance - $199.99 $179.99
Save an Extra $50 when you buy both together for $549.98 + Only $509.98 After $40 Data Robitics Rebate (Visa Gift Card)

Check out these and more Drobo + Drobo bundle offers online


Make that old hard drive an external, transfer data, build-your-own kits
Unless you've got a Mac with those extra bays (with one still open too), when it comes time to get a new internal drive, it's good to have options for the drive that's coming out. Whether you just need short-term access to get your data moved - or want to make it a 'double-upgrade' by making the old drive additional external storage - we've got the solution.

Easy Quick Access:

NewerTech Universal HD Adapter 2.5/3.5/5.25 IDE/ATA/SATA to USB2 - $27.50
Highly acclaimed & Award winning. Easy Data Transfer + drive accessibility

USB2 to IDE/ATA, Adapt SATA to IDE/ATA, IDE/ATA to SATA: options from $5.99

Dock that Drive:

NewerTech Voyager Serial-ATA Hard Drive Docking Kits from $49.99
Just drop in your 2.5" or 3.5" Drive and it's an instant external! Plug & Play, Flash Memory card like HD swap capability, High-Performance!

Make your old internal drive a fully enclosed external solution:


SATA 2.5" HD from the MacBook or MacBook Pro to External from $27.95

IDE/ATA 2.5" Notebook HDs From PowerBook/iBook to External from $37.99

SATA 3.5" HDs from Mac Pro, G5s to External from $49.00

Make those IDE/ATA 3.5" Drives from Apple G4 Macs go External from $34.95


Tune/Watch/Record/Playback TV with/from yourMac starting for $99.00

ElGato Turbo H.264 USB 2.0 Hardware Video Encoder now from $69.99
All Elgato TV tuner products include software to convert captured TV/Video for playback via iTunes allowing such video to be watched on devices like your iPod, iPhone, or Sony PSP. Instead of waiting for your Mac to do the conversion + tying it up so you can't really do other work, the Turbo H.264 products convert video Faster & keep your processor(s) free for other applications you can then continue to use productively. Win - win.

ElGato EyeTV Hybrid Analog & Digital/HDTV TV-Video Stick from $99.00
Watch, Record, Playback TV & Video - Analog + Digital/HDTV - right on your Mac. Plug and play via USB2, everything you need all included.

Check out all the current 'TV on Mac' options online now. This is fun stuff and has practical applications too. If nothing else, your Mac display can become a main TV display too. :)


Memory makes the difference - 4GB upgrades from $47.50
The buyers market continues with memory prices that are exceptional. More memory brings on majorly more performance. You can spend hundreds or thousands between options for a processor speed difference of 10-20-30%... Depending on how little memory you have now and what machine, an upgrade kit that costs less than $50 can kick your performance up by even double or more. That's ROI!

Want some idea of how much your Mac potentially has to gain via adding more memory or a newer hard drive? OWC's system performance testing benchmarks not only let you look at different model and speed Macs, but how they performane with different memory configurations as well as a hard drive comparison or two.

The Mac Performance Guide site has pretty is another excellent resource for looking at realworld ROI with a focus on PhotoShop performance. See the benefits of more memory as well as various hard drives and hard drive arrays on performance.

OWC Memory is premium quality, backed by a Lifetime Advance Replacement Warranty, and meets and/or exceeds JEDEC and Apple required specifications.

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Memory for the new 'March/2009' Macs:

New Mac mini models:
1GB or 2GB of DDR3 Memory Standard *4GB is Max, 6GB & 8GB Confirmed no go*
2GB Modules - $30.95, 4GB Kits for $59.99.
Featured Mac mini Display Page has easy guide for upgrading any of the Mac mini models. Get the right memory up to 4GB, Right HD up to 500GB, SuperDrives & More too.

New iMac Models 20" & 24":
2GB or 4GB of DDR3 Memory Standard - all new models support up to 8GB
Upgrade from 2GB to 4GB with 4GB kit for $59.99
Get the right goods with our Guide for all iMac models + external accessories & More

New Mac Pro 'Nehalem' Models:
OWC Kits provide new 4-Core models (4 Memory Slots) with options now up to 16GB, 8-Core Models (which have 8 Memory Slots) with options up to 32GB. Kits features matched sets of DDR3 ECC SDRAM DIMMs with special, Apple specified Thermal Sensor equipped EEPROM. Upgrades from $18 per 1GB - about 25% less than FB-DIMM Mac Pro Models. Featured Mac Pro Expansion page makes it easy to correctly identify and easily upgrade any Mac Pro model you have.

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DDR2 Memory for 'Pre-Unibody' MacBook & MacBook Pro, iMac Intel, Mac Mini
2 Slots: Can add memory one at a time - matched pairs provide max performance.

2.0GB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SO-DIMM Kit (2 x 1.0GB Modules) - $26.99

4.0GB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SO-DIMM Kit (2 x 2.0GB Modules) now $47.50
See below for 800MHz Kit for April 2008 iMac Models*

6.0GB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SO-DIMM Kit (2GB+4GB) now $179.99

4.0GB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz SO-DIMM Kit (2GBx2) NEW Apr/08 iMacs now $48.25
*For April/2008 iMac Models Only - 800MHz not backwards compatible for 667MHz

DDR3 Memory for the Late 2008 & Early 2009 'Unibody' MacBook and MacBook Pro

2 Expansion Slots - Upgrade to 4.0GB, 6.0GB, or even up to 8.0GB!

4.0GB PC8500 DDR3 1066MHz SO-DIMM Kit (2 x 2GB Matched) now $59.99
*Save More, Cash Back for the trade in of your Factory Modules*
Options for 6GB and 8GB of total Memory also Available.

See all options for iMac, Mac mini, & MacBook/MacBook Pro Memory Expansion.

PowerMac G5 up to 8.0GB, iMac G5 up to 2.0GB with PC3200 DDR Memory
iMac G5 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz, and 2.0GHz; all PowerMac G5 Models with PCI-X Slots (all PowerMac G5s prior to the PCI-Express 'October 2005' models). PowerMac requires Matched Pairs, iMac supports adding a pair or one module at a time.

2.0GB Matched Pair (1GB x 2) PC3200 DDR 184 Pin DIMMs - $77.50

1.0GB Matched Pair (512MB x 2) PC3200 DDR 184 Pin DIMMs - $38.75

PowerMac G5 5 'Oct 05' PCI-Express & iMac G5/1.9GHz & 2.1GHz DDR2 Memory
PC4200 Memory for Late 2005 Model iMacs - 1 Slot, 2GB Max installed; PowerMac G5 PCI-Express - 8 Slots, requires installation of pairs, 16GB Max installed.

2.0GB PC4200 DDR2 Matched Pair for PowerMac 1.0GB x 2 Set - $23.75

2.0GB PC4200 DDR2 240 Pin DIMM for iMac G5/1.9GHz & 2.1GHz - $24.00

4.0GB PC4200 DDR2 Matched Pair for PowerMac 2GB x 2 Matched Set - $47.50

Mac Pro Towers can have up to 32GB of Memory with OWC Qualified Modules
Apple Mac Pro XEON Models can go up to 32GB of Total Memory with OWC Mac Pro Qualified/Certified Matched Pair Upgrade Kits. What good is having all those powerful Xeon Cores if you don't have the memory in there to set them free?

1.0GB x 2, 2.0GB x 2, 4.0GB x 2 Kits for Mac Pro from $22.19 per Gigabyte

Upgrade your Apple G4 Desktop/Tower Mac with up to 512MB per slot!
All of these models allow you to add one module at a time with each slot independent. No need or benefit to having matched size/pairs. Definitely a major performance benefit to maxing memory to 1GB/1.5GB/2.0GB though.

PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics/Sawtooth, Digital Audio, Quicksilver; some eMacs
512MB PC133 CL3 3-2-2/PC100 CL2 2-2-2 SDRAM DIMM Module - now $27.00

For PowerMac G4 'MDD' Mirrored Drive Door Systems
512MB PC2700/2100 DDR DIMM 184 Pin - $19.50

Upgrade PowerBook G4 Aluminum 12"/15"/17"; iBook G4 12" & 14"
PC2700 for all iBook G4 Models, All 'Pre-Oct 2005' PowerBook G4 Aluminums
PowerBook G4 15/17" 2GB Max (2 Slots); PBG4 12" & iBook G4 - 1GB (1 Slot)

1.0GB PC2700 DDR 333MHZ SO-DIMM 200 Pin now - $48.75

OWC stocks top quality, fully tested - Apple Spec Memory for nearly every Mac made. Our online guide will show you the options available for your Mac!


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