Other World Computing extended its Turnkey upgrade service to the 2013 Mac Pro Tuesday, offering customers CPU and RAM upgrades for Apple’s latest flagship. In addition to performing the complicated upgrade for you, OWC also offers CPU options not available from Apple.
Apple’s new Mac Pro is a powerhouse, but the stock configurations ship with relatively little RAM for a professional workstation. We look at two third party options for upgrading your Mac Pro to 64GB of memory, and compare them to the standard Apple RAM in terms of performance and value.
Microsoft’s flagship Surface Pro 2 tablet received a processor bump in December. After launching in late October with a 1.6 GHz Haswell-based CPU, Microsoft quietly switched to a 1.9 GHz part at some point last month.
Modern Apple products are virtually impossible to upgrade, but it wasn’t always this way. Join us as we perform some invasive surgery, and upgrade the CPU, SSD, and RAM of an Early 2006 iMac.
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Although an original member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, Apple has never embraced the format, calling it a “bag of hurt” and preferring to guide customers towards its own “high definition” content via the iTunes Store. Mac owners could still use Blu-ray optical drives, although there was no official support in OS X for the commercial Blu-ray video format. Still, determined fans of high quality, and high capacity, optical media resigned themselves to attaching external Blu-ray drives to their iMacs