Peripherals

OWC's Mercury Rack Pro is a compact 1U desktop or rack mount external RAID storage solution for the Mac. The Mercury Rack Pro provides a quad interface using eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, or USB 3.0. The USB port is backward compatible to USB 2; the eSATA port uses port multiplier technology to access the four drives when used in a non-RAID...

Mercury Rack Pro Raid Review: I started the performance testing of the Mercury Rack Pro by benchmarking each individual drive. The idea was to confirm that all four drives had nearly identical performance, and that there was no "hot" drive bay; that is, one that outperformed the others.

Smartfish Whirl Desktop Laser Mouse Review: The Smartfish Whirl may be the best ergonomically designed mouse available for the Mac. With its easy-to-grip body, and a floating pivot system that allows the mouse to swoop about the pivot point, the Whirl may convince your wrist that it's spending the day at a spa instead of working hard at your desk.

Navigator 905 Review: The Navigator 905 is one of the newest notebook mice from Genius. It incorporates a high precision BlueEye tracking system that you can set to 800, 1200 or 1600 DPI. The Navigator 905 is a wireless mouse that uses 2.4 GHz technology. It comes with a very small USB transceiver that can be attached to the mouse when...

iPhone 4 Preview: This is a preview of the iPhone 4, based on Apple's announcement at WWDC 2010. The newest member of the iPhone family breaks new ground by offering the highest resolution display yet seen on a mobile phone. The display quality changes everything, allowing the iPhone to be used successfully as an ebook reader, high-resolution web browser, or mobile movie production studio.

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD Review: The Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD uses SandForce SF-1200 SSD processors, which were designed to maximize performance and power utilization, and create Solid state drives that maintain their performance levels over the device's entire lifetime.

If you're in the market for any Mac but an iMac, you'll probably also be looking for an LCD display. Even laptop users can benefit from a larger display when working at home or at the office. There are many sizes and types of displays to choose from; it helps to familiarize yourself with the terminology before you go shopping, whether online or in a retail store.

Buying an external hard drive may seem to entail making difficult decisions, but once you understand the basic choices available, you'll find that selecting an external hard drive enclosure is a simple process.

Review: OWC’s Mercury Elite-AL Pro series of external hard drives and cases provides more bang for the buck, not only in having a quad interface made up of USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA ports, but also in ruggedness and ease of assembly and use.

The OWC Mercury Elite Pro-AL Dual SATA Drive Enclosure is simplicity at its best. Forgoing the electronics needed to create multiple external or internal interfaces results in a highly reliable enclosure whose only potential points of failure are a small, replaceable fan or an external power brick.

Review of the Macally PHR-S100SUA eSATA, FireWire, USB 2.0 external storage enclosure. This external drive enclosure has a universal, triple interface that allows you to use the PHR-S100SUA with just about any Mac or PC.

Buying an external hard drive may seem to entail making difficult decisions, but once you understand the basic choices available, you'll find that selecting an external hard drive enclosure is a simple process.

If you're in the market for any Mac but an iMac, you'll probably also be looking for an LCD display. Even laptop users can benefit from a larger display when working at home or at the office. There are many sizes and types of displays to choose from; it helps to familiarize yourself with the terminology before you go shopping, whether online or in a retail store.

Photo printers have become a must-have for anyone who has a large collection of digital photos. Some models can produce photo-lab quality prints in a matter of minutes. Even better, these printers are budget-friendly; you can print just the photos you want, rather than waste money on under or overexposed images.