The miniStack Max fits right on top of the Mac Mini and combines a CD/DVD drive, a hard drive up to 4 TB, an SD card reader, and additional ports (USB 3/2, FireWire 800/400, eSata) including a USB port that can be used to recharge an iPad or other iDevice. If you just want additional hard drives and ports, you can get the miniStack instead.

In May 2011 Other World Computing discovered that if you install a non-factory hard drive in the 2011 iMacs the fans would run at full speed all of the time. This was a great disappointment to those who like to upgrade their iMacs for extra performance and power. Fortunately, after a lot of hard work and effort, OWC discovered a fix that would not only cause no reduction in performance, but be 100% compatible with the Apple Hardware Test and maintain proper fan operation as well.

According to Other World Computing, Apple’s newest line of iMacs can no longer have their HDDs replaced because Apple has begun using 7-pin SATA power connectors being controlled by a combination of the cable and Apple’s proprietary firmware on the drive, rather than the former 4-pin connectors.

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Here are some ideas for the Macintosh owner close to your heart this Christmas.

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OWC is now carrying RAM for the Mac Pro. This is the 800MHz ECC: Mac Pro Quad-Core 2.8GHz, 8-Core 3.0GHz, 8-Core 3.2GHz Ram listed on OWC. The ship date on all these modules is between 3 and 9 days, and huge discounts off of Apple’s prices. 2 GB starting from $129.99, 4 GB starting from more »

Santa Rosa has arrived on the MacBook Pros, bringing along lots of goodies including faster processors, graphics cards and a new memory limit of 4GB. Now, I’m not sure why you’d need 4GB of RAM, but OWC (Other World Computing) has begun selling a 4GB memory package. These are 2 sticks of 2GBs, each rated more »