Essential Parts and Upgrades for your Mac.
Clients query all the time, what is the best external hard
drive for my Mac? Whats the best Tv Tuner for my Mac? Can I
upgrade the Superdrive in my G4? Can I really put a 500Gb
drive in my G4 iMac?
AuburnCom supplies and Recommends only the finest, fully
tested and most satisfactory products on the market for the
Mac, If a Hard rive fails our quality tests for any reason,
be it too loud or be it's warranty too short, we won't
recommend or endorse it no matter what, there's an
expression in the IT business that you can only have two
factors in your solution out of the three available
factors: Good, Fast and Cheap.
The Products we recommend will always contain the first two
of these two qualities!
Auburncoms Current Recommendation: Macbook Core 2 Duo 2.0
Ghz at Amazon for $994.99 after $100 rebate!
The entire Macbook Line is a tremendously solid line up of
industrial strength machines, Amazon is currently offering
great rebates on the entire line and we've seen the black
Macbook ($1499 plus Tak at Apple) for under $1300 after
rebates, these computers some with features that you won't
find on laptops at any price point from other manufacturers
including slot loading dvd drives, 802.11n Wireless
networking, Magsafe connectors and More.
If you're a Graphic design professional or avid gamer you
may need a MacBook Pro as ths Macbooks use integrated
graphics and that will result in lower frame rates for
graphics intensive processes like video rendering or 3d
gaming.
As a footnote, We must point out that all MacBooks contain
the Dual monitor feature that was sorely absent on iBooks
of years gone by, Graphics Professionals used to be forced
to buy a Powerbook for dual monitor mode as iBooks hadn't
the graphics firepower to drive dual displays, but rest
assured your Macbook for $994.99 from Amazon will easily
enable you to double your screen real estate by plugging a
Cinema Dislpay into the mini dvi port on the macbook.
Auburncoms Current Desktop Recommendation: iMac 24 inch at
Apple.com for $1999
The iMac 24 inch is almost gratuitous, at 24 inches wide it
fills your entire desk and plays video back beautifully,
its got powerful graphics and comes in configurations with
Ram up to 3Gb and Hard Drives up to 750Gb, for everything
bare high demand video encoding (for which you should find
a quad or octo core Mac Pro) this mac will fit the bill.
AuburnCom MacBook Case recommendation: The Axio Laptop
Armor Laptop Case
This Axio case is ideal for the MacBook and can protect the
mac from bumps, bruises and pressure.
AuburnCom Laptop Bag Recommendation: Brenthaven Metro Black
AuburnCom TV tuner Recommendation: Tuner, no need, download
your shows through iTunes or with TvShows
AuburnCom Wifi Recommendation: For Macs or Pc's the choice
is simple, the Airport Extreme N from apple at $179
With a usb port and support for up to 127 external hard
drives and printers, plus four wired ports on board the
Airport Extreme 802.11n wireless router provides twice the
coverage af prior airports and five times the speed.
AuburnCom Recommended Ram: Crucial.com provides great
solutions for your Macs ram needs.
AuburnCom recommended Internal (Laptop or Desktop)Hard
Drives: Seagate Barracuda
When Buying an internal drive for your Mac, ALWAYS buy a
seagate, they cost more, but have proven reliability and an
industry leading five year warranty.
AuburnCom External Hard Drive Recommendation: Seagate
FreeAgent Drive
Seagate Freeagent Drives have perpendicular recording
technology making them smaller and lighter weight, the
desktop external drives also feature Seagate's Five year
Warranty ensuring peace of mind well into 2012
AuburnCom External Laptop Hard Drive Recommendation:
Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive
Seagates Portable Freeagent drives are even prettier than
their big desktop siblings, featuring the same
perpendicular recording technology, Seagate's long legacy,
as well as a glowing amber light and Seagate's five year
warranty, these are impossible to beat.
AuburnCom Superdrive Recommendation: AuburnCom Superdrives,
buy straight from AuburnCom, 18x DVD Burning Dual Layer
drives, primed for your G4 Power Mac or iMac as well as G5
Power Macs.
