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Macs Macs Basics Reviews Tips & Tricks From Tom Nelson, your Guide to Macs We're days away from WWDC 2010, where new products and features will take center stage. According to pre-event marketing, this WWDC will focus on Apple's mobile platforms, but we're hoping for a few Mac-related updates as well. In the meantime, I've spent the last two weeks using a very fast SSD (Solid State Drive) as the startup drive for my Mac. I was impressed, to say the least, and very sorry when the evaluation time was up and I had to send the product back. The other bit of fun this week was running Snow Leopard as a guest OS within VirtualBox, a virtualization application from Oracle. Pretty nifty, running Snow Leopard as a client OS on top of Snow Leopard as the host. OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD Review OWC's Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD is the fastest SSD (Solid State Drive) I've ever installed and used on my Mac. I haven't been a fan of SSDs in the past. Sure, they deliver pretty good performance, but at a high price tag. In addition, their ability to maintain performance over their expected lifetime has been less than impressive. OWC's Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSDs have completely turned me around. While the price is still a bit high, their performance, reliability, and utter lack of performance degradation over time make me want to add SSD storage to my next Mac... Read more Review: VirtualBox 3.2 Adds Supports for OS X as Client Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.0 contains many improvements over earlier versions. Oracle has taken Sun's virtual offering and updated it to work with the latest Intel processors, created a faster video subsystem, and sped up basic performance. While it lacks many features Mac users expect in a VM product, especially when compared with Parallels and Fusion, it does offer two compelling features: It's free, and it supports installing Snow Leopard as a guest OS... Read more Spyware Embedded in Screen Saver Installer Antivirus company Intego warns of a spyware application being distributed as part of freely available Mac applications. The malware, OSX/OpinionSpy, is embedded in the application installer used by screensavers from 7art-screensavers and the FLV To MP3 application from MishINC... Read more Google Dumps Windows; Mac or Linux the Choice for New Hires According to the Financial Times, Google is dumping the Windows OS from all of its computing platforms due to security concerns. Current employees who need to keep using Windows require approval from very high senior levels of management... Read more Macs Ads Mac OSX Mac Virus LG Hi Macs Mac AntiVirus SSD Disk Featured Articles Share Your Favorite Mac Applications What Backup Method Do You Use? What's Your Favorite External Hard Drive? What Are Your Apple Customer Support Stories? Using an Application's Proxy Icon in the Toolbar How to Copy iPod Music to Your Mac   More from About.com Birth Control Misconceptions How much do you know about sex myths and your chances of becoming pregnant? Click here to test your knowledge. More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More> This newsletter is written by: Tom Nelson Macs Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Macs newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Mac News & Events 50-Core Intel Processor for Your Mac Pro? Apple Opens iBookstore to Self Publishers Quiet Read: Tom's Budget Software Pick Advertisement