Other World Computing Blog » Testing LabOther World Computing Blog

You may have seen MIL-STD-810G on OWC products. It’s usually next to the word “rugged” or “military.” You may even know that it refers to a set of standards used to evaluate the durabil...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/75066-what-mil-std-810g-means-for-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-mil-std-810g-means-for-you

In our recent post, Get Up to 67% Faster External Drive Performance With Your M1 Mac, we promised to keep looking into the Thunderbolt drive speed issues. We wanted to do some additional testing ...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/74780-faster-external-drive-speed-m1-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=faster-external-drive-speed-m1-mac

It’s been widely covered how external drive performance is unacceptably slow with M1 Macs. Well, we have some breaking news on this and you’re reading it here first on the Rocketyard Blog... ...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/74383-faster-drive-performance-with-m1-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=faster-drive-performance-with-m1-mac

After receiving the new Apple MacBook Air with the M1 chip on Tuesday, we filmed the unboxing (coming soon). However, we held off shooting the teardown video for fear that the Auto-On feature wou...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/68063-teardown-m1-macbook-air-with-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teardown-m1-macbook-air-with-photos

Nobody likes to experience a kernel panic on their Mac. This is when your Mac restarts itself while you are working. After it finishes the restart process, you see a dialog telling you that your...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/62122-investigating-preventing-kernel-panics-in-the-2019-mac-pro/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=investigating-preventing-kernel-panics-in-the-2019-mac-pro

Are you working on a movie set, transferring hundreds of gigabytes from a camera card to a RAID array? Are you a photographer trying to copy a large project from one volume to another? If so, y...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/60773-why-is-my-mac-hanging-when-copying-files-after-upgrading-to-macos-catalina-10-15-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-is-my-mac-hanging-when-copying-files-after-upgrading-to-macos-catalina-10-15-4

We had a simple question: What would happen if we pushed a top of the line, 28-core Mac Pro loaded with 1.5TB of OWC memory, to its limits? Which begged a second question: What exactly is the b...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/58586-6000-tabs-of-google-chrome-vs-1-5tb-of-owc-memory-who-will-win/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=6000-tabs-of-google-chrome-vs-1-5tb-of-owc-memory-who-will-win

If you have been a Rocket Yard reader for any length of time, you know that this blog has never existed to merely prop up OWC or MacSales.com. We highly value our role in bringing you a wide vari...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/50234-owc-envoy-pro-ex-usb-c-ssd-has-jaw-droppingly-good-performance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=owc-envoy-pro-ex-usb-c-ssd-has-jaw-droppingly-good-performance

Watch OWC Nick and OWC Chris as they install and test 128GB of OWC Memory on the 2019 iMac 5K. The iMac 5K is limited by the factory to 32GB of memory for the entry-level iMac, and 64GB for the o...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/47781-check-out-the-2019-imac-5k-with-128gb-of-owc-memory-installed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=check-out-the-2019-imac-5k-with-128gb-of-owc-memory-installed

When asked what browser they use on their Mac, most people will respond with Google Chrome or Apple Safari. Some will mention Firefox and Opera as alternatives to the big two. It seems each brows...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/46993-rocket-yard-testing-lab-which-browser-is-fastest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rocket-yard-testing-lab-which-browser-is-fastest

The silver tower Mac Pro is an extremely popular machine, especially among audio and video engineers. They are easy to upgrade, self-contained and when maxed out, they perform reasonably close to...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/46923-we-saw-these-performance-gains-when-migrating-storage-from-older-mac-pro-to-2018-mac-mini/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-saw-these-performance-gains-when-migrating-storage-from-older-mac-pro-to-2018-mac-mini

By no means was the Mac created in 2008. Apple’s family of personal computers began all the way back in 1984 with the Macintosh and was re-branded as Mac in 1998. Ten years after that historic ...

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/46420-decade-of-upgrade-how-to-enhance-any-mac-notebook-since-2008/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decade-of-upgrade-how-to-enhance-any-mac-notebook-since-2008