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Recently, Daniel Hollister from our Waitsfield retail store installed a Crucial SSD (Solid State Drive) into a late-2006 MacBook. This upgrade made a barely usable machine into a like-new machine!

Though it cannot run anything past OS X 10.7, it is as quick as a new MacBook Air. It starts up and is ready to go in 20 seconds.

Because the SSD has no moving parts, there is no waiting for the disk to spin up and programs load in just a few seconds without any beach balls appearing.

If you have an aging laptop and aren’t quite ready to buy a new one, having an SSD installed might be what you are looking for!

Daniel can’t stop talking about how fast his old MacBook is now that he’s installed this drive — proof that Macs can run well beyond their years!

As you may have heard, we had to make the difficult decision to close our Manchester, NH location last month. After almost four years in the Mall of New Hampshire, it became a reality that the mall life was not for us. (Or, as we say, Small Dog is no Mall Dog…)

We opened that store in October 2010 with high expectations for the area, widely seen as a destination for Boston-area dwellers. We ultimately found that we couldn’t connect with our customers in the way that we wanted to (and were used to) in a mall setting, but we tried many different things to reach potential customers.

We want to thank our Manchester (and surrounding) customers for your support over the years — it has been a pleasure getting to know you, and we are keeping our options open for a return to the area in the future. Our Outside Sales rep, Dana Flint, has stayed on to work with businesses that need one of the many solutions that Small Dog can provide. For retail customers, we encourage you to shop (tax-free, as always) at “*Smalldog.com*”:http://www.smalldog.com or take a scenic drive up to “*one of our Vermont locations*”:http://www.smalldog.com/retail (or take a vacation to Key West, FL!).

Office 365 Home Premium has the latest version of the applications you know and love, plus Cloud services so you can have Office when and where you need it. Just sign in and you can get to your Office files, applications, and settings from virtually anywhere!

The latest versions of all their best-in-class applications, plus Cloud services including Skype and SkyDrive on up to 5 PCs, Windows 8 tablets, and Macs.

One year of the Office 365 Home Premium Download includes:

* Office for the entire household on up to 5 PCs and Windows 8 tablets, Macs
* The latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access
* An extra 20GB of online storage in SkyDrive (27 GB total) for anywhere access to your documents
* Mobile app for iPad/iPhone ??(found in Apple App Store)??

“**Purchase Office 365 here!**”:http://www.smalldog.com/search?search=office+365

In the words of Tony, Toni, Toné: It’s our anniversary, bay-bay! Our Anniversarrryyyy! That’s right, folks! Rutland, VT and Small Dog Electronics are celebrating their one year anniversary together, and they want ??you?? to come to the party.

This one-time-only, super awesome, mega-fun radical event will be taking place Saturday, May 3rd at our Rutland, VT location (Downtown Merchant’s Row, 116 West St). We will be kicking things off at 10am and raging until the early hours of the afternoon (we’ll be open until 5!). There will be **food, fun, and great deals** to be had throughout the day!

Thinking of coming? RSVP on “**Facebook!**”:https://www.facebook.com/events/611589208935863/

Two major deals we will be running are **$100 off any new Mac and $30 off any new iPad**. There will also be plenty of one-day, in-store only specials, including **hourly drawings** for prizes from 11-2pm. Pile the family into the minivan and head downtown to see us and join in the festivities or just stop in to say hello. There’s fun for everyone, so don’t be shy. We all look forward to seeing you this Saturday and for many Saturdays to come!

I would like to personally thank all of you in the Rutland community and beyond for all of your continued support of our local Vermont business. I am proud to be a part of building of a brighter future for Rutland! And I am proud to be doing it alongside all of you, our valued SDE customers. I hope to see you all at the anniversary party — cheers!

Beginning **May 19th,** we will be launching our annual **Dads & Grads** promotions. We are so excited about some of these promotions we want to give you a sneak peak so you can start to plan that perfect gift!

We will be offering deals on **Canon printers**, must-have **software**, sweet **Mac and iPad Bundles** and more! Savings from **$30-$180** on select bundles for your Mac and iPad needs.

Of course, don’t forget that Mother’s Day is May 11! We have plenty of mom-approved products in stock for the special mom in your life.

You can take advantage of our **0% financing** for 6 months offer __right now__ for **any product** in our store. So, get your pencils ready, make your lists, and come on down to Small Dog for your gift-giving needs!

If you ever find yourself in the South Burlington store in need of tech help, look no further than our very own Mac Lesson guru Nate! As a Small Dog veteran and life-long Mac enthusiast “**Nate Poirier**”:http://www.smalldog.com/nathan/nathan-poirier-bio has the skills and know how to help you master your machine!

His areas of expertise cover Mac and iOS basics, file organization, and iPhoto, as well as numerous other subjects! Nate is a ready source of knowledge for customer and coworkers alike.

When he’s not saving the day at Small Dog, Nate is an avid photographer specializing in astrophotograhy. Some of his other hobbies include playing the trumpet, building computers and staying up-to-date on all the latest tech news.

If you ever find yourself in the South Burlington store and need a helpful hand to show you how to use that new iPad or learn how to better utilize your Mac, ask for Nate!