Today I broke down and bought one of the new Retina iPad minis. That is one of the dilemmas of living in a city with multiple, easy to get to Apple Stores. I’ve been watching the local stores’ inventories fluctuate using the Apple-Tracker web site, and noticed that there were several of the model I wanted […]
Category: Benchmark
It’s the benchmarks that get you interested in a new architecture. Per MacRumors, a series of Geekbench benchmarks that appear to be from unreleased versions of Apple’s MacBook Pro and iMac computers have surfaced online and serve as compelling evidence of upcoming upgrades from the company. Scores for a MacBook Pro9,1 and an iMac13,2 were […]
The guys over at Macworld News have posted the benchmarks for Apple’s newest generation of the MacBook Pro laptop. The new units, which are based on Intel’s Santa Rosa hardware architecture, fared well in tests and performed as expected for the most part, but lagged in graphics cards tests, despite the new Nvidia GeForce 8600M […]
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2.0 GHz MacBook Benchmarks Posted
The guys over at Mac|Life have recently posted a benchmark report on the new MacBook laptops released late last week. The updated laptops went from 1.83 GHz to 2 Ghz and gained an additional two megabytes of L2 cache among other changes and the review pitted the older 2 GHz black MacBook against the newest […]
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How Well do MacBooks run Quake 4?
BareFeats has posted a shootout between various Macs running Quake 4 Including three MacBooks: PowerBook G4/1.5 15″ (with Daystar 2.0GHz upgrade) PowerBook G4/1.67 17″ MacBook 13″ (2GHz) MacBook Pro 15″ (2GHz) MacBook Pro 17″ (2.16GHz) We’re still excited about seeing multi-processor support on a state-of-the-art game like Quake 4. It reminds us of “yesteryear” when […]