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With an Intel® Core™ Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Xeon® processor, plus other engineering leaps, a new Mac will do all those things that only Macs can do — and do so at astonishing performance levels. Aside from the obvious "add more memory" upgrade, here are a few more ways to make your Apple — especially the not-so-new ones — even sweeter.
Think external storage
If you need extra storage space on your Mac, an external hard drive is a good way to go. Today's external drives offer mega-capacity (650 gigabytes) but use triple interface connectivity for speed and flexibility. Look for a hard drive that offers USB 2.0, FireWire® 400 or FireWire 800 (800Mbps). FireWire 800 reduces delays in arbitration and signal distortion while increasing throughput to more than two times the usable bandwidth of USB 2.0, making it the perfect choice for high-speed external storage for your Mac.
Go for speed
You don't need to throw out that old G3- or G4-based Mac to take advantage of the great features of Mac OS X. A processor upgrade can bring an aging Power Mac® G3 or G4 up to a respectable 1.5GHz. Unfortunately, however, it cannot help other restrictions on old Macs, such as a slow or limited hard drive or inadequate amount of random access memory. Because they come with detailed installation instructions, today's CPU upgrade cards are easy to install but may require that your computer's firmware be updated to take advantage of added features. That said, with its faster core speed and larger Level 2 cache memory, this type of upgrade can breathe new life into an older Mac, especially when combined with an increase in RAM.
Go on a RAID
Today's business is transacted primarily within a complex integrated global economic network. This high volume of electronic commerce inevitably results in system interruptions and downtimes. In an effort to reduce or avert losses from such interruptions, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) was born. RAID relies on the operation of a number of hard-disk drives in an array that, in practice, act as one — a large, fast one.
Performing as a single drive brings about a higher fault tolerance, as well as improved data security, because of increased/integrated capacity and better performance as a whole. In addition, serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) uses a smaller, thinner cable, resulting in better airflow throughout your system. RAIDs are configured based upon parameters specific to each company/industry, usually in the form of a combination of striping, duplexing, mirroring and parity technologies.
Go for a Parallel universe
Parallels® Desktop for Mac WDM allows the best of both operating system worlds via virtualization. You can run several operating systems on one machine with seamless networking, and with just a single keystroke. Requiring no hard-drive partitioning, the Parallels program acts as a virtual machine: the PC, with all the standard PC hardware; motherboard (generic) compatible with Intel i815 chipset; virtualized processor of the host computer; 1500 megabytes of RAM, VGA and SVGA graphics standards with VESA 3.0 support; four IDE devices (from
20MB up to 128GB mapped to image file, for virtual hard drives), CD/DVD-ROM drives (mapped to an image file or to a physical drive) or any combination of those drives.
This program lets you run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and Mac OS X simultaneously without having to reboot, which is a real plus if you don't want to sacrifice access to Windows-only applications you may need to use once in a while. Just as you might expect, Parallels users can seamlessly connect to networks in Mac OS and Windows via a shared network connection, and files and folders are easily copied and pasted between your company's Windows XP and Mac OS X programs.
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