(Friday news includes items from Thursday while I was out)

• Dual OWC 6G SSDs (RAID) in 2012 (non-Retina) MacBook Pro (sponsor blog)
• MacBook Pro w/Retina Display: I wanna love you, but you're bringing me down
• Meet the new Mac Pro, about the same as old Mac Pro (mid-2012 speed bump)
• OWC intros Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD (sponsor's SSD)
• Apple asks retail employees to test Mountain Lion
• Apple Files Security, Display Luminance & Flash Memory Patents
• Apple Patent Looks to Clone Your Online Identity (spin on above)
• Parallels Desktop 7.0.15098.770637 adds Retina support (per release notes PDF)
• Drobo hooks up Thunderbolt with USB 3.0, data cable

• iCloud: iCloud security and privacy overview
• About Energy Saver sleep and idle modes in Mac OS X
• iMovie 9.0.6, iPhoto 9.3, and Aperture 3.3 OS requirement
• OS X v10.5 or later: How to share a Mac with other people
• Setting up iTunes and DVD Player for digital surround sound
• Keynote for iPad: Best practices for creating presentations on a Mac for use on iPad
• Mac 101: Change your desktop
• Vintage and obsolete products
• iTunes Gift Options
• Using Msconfig to troubleshoot conflicts in Windows Vista and Windows 7

• AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown
• Fix promised for Firefox v13 'new tab' feature that can expose info
• (Krebs) A Closer Look: Email-Based Malware Attacks
  (btw: lots of fake Dropbox and Vimeo phishing mails making the rounds again)
• Flame can sabotage computers by deleting files, says Symantec
• Twitter Crash: Hack Or Hardware Fail?
• (PCMag's) Top 10 NAS Devices
• Alienware M17x R4 review
• Tesla Model S Rated at 89 MPGe, Instruments Powered by Nvidia
• (Detailed) Review of Infinity Primus P363 Floorstanding Speakers
• Firmware Updates for Sony BDP-S1000ES (v014) and BDP-S5000ES (v026)
  Notes "Improves disc playability" but some thought it may add Cinavia DRM, however per Sony support it doesn't. (Said if it did, the chg notes would have said so.)

  Firmware v014 update also for BDP-BX2, BDP-S360, BDP-S560.
  Firmware v026 update also for BDP-BX1, BDP-S350 and BDP-S550.