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* Other World Computing has DEALS on Solid State Drives.
* Trans International has Memory upgrade kits for the 2013 Mac Pro.

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Friday May 17th, 2013 -- New OS X NVIDIA Driver for GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and Quadro K5000 for Mac. (Dated May 15, 2013, Version 313.01.01f03) A CUDA update was released the same day (Version 5.0.59).

Friday, May 10th, 2013 -- MaxUpgrades has created a new kit that will add a standard size SSD inside the 27" 2012 iMac. A second kit lets you replace the factory HDD with two SSDs.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2012 -- Apple has released a "speed bump" and price drop on the Retina MacBook Pro models today. Our 2.7GHz rMBP with 16G of RAM and 512G SSD cost us $3249 back in June of 2012. Today, the same config is priced at $2799 or $450 cheaper. The GPU is the same GeForce GT 650M with 1G of GDDR5 video memory.

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