A new OWC record. MacBook Pro 15″ 2.0GHz received about 10:30 2/21/06 – and already fully taken apart, pictures taken, and posted to the web by 1PM. Even Kodawarisan would be proud. Click through for 19 gory pictures of the MacBook Pro disemboweled.
I’ve run some benchmarks on Apple’s new MacBook Pro running an application that hasn’t been optimized for the Intel chip yet – Adobe’s notoriously resource intensive Photoshop CS. For the test I ran two Photoshop actions on my PowerBook G4 1.5GHz and on my MacBook Pro 2.0GHz. Both are similarly configured with 2GB of RAM […]
I did my first real test of the controversial MacBook Pro battery today. I wanted to test the MBP battery in an unattended scenario because I have not yet migrated my data over from my PowerBook G4 1.5GHz and I needed to be productive today on my main machine. Another thing to keep in mind […]
ALERT: According to Ladd at Xbench: 10.4 attempts to limit screen updating to 60 frames per second, and will throttle applications that exceed this limit. Normally, this is the correct thing to do, but for a benchmarking application it doesn’t work out so well. In the meanwhile, you can turn off beam sync in Quartz […]
My MacBook Pro just arrived at PowerPage world headquarters 10 minutes ago and wanted to post a couple of pictures. Look at the size of the box! I’m going to start a fire, set up my tripod and post some unboxing photos soon. Stay tuned. Mad props to Everett and the entire crew at Springboard […]