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 […]
Category: The Apple Core
The iTab is a slick-looking tablet Mac but it’s not from Cupertino. This little pen-based Mac is from an outfit called ThePlaceForItAll. It isn’t the first time someone has converted an iBook into a Mac tablet, that honor goes to Joseph DeRuvo Jr… Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple […]
This week’s “Mac virus” scare turned out to be nothing more than a worm for Mac OS X that propagates through iChat and infects local Mac applications. OSX/Leap.A is a wake up call to Mac users that we’re not immune to all the nasties floating around on the Web. Read the rest of the story […]
The roller coaster ride of Apple ship dates keeps on rolling. Yesterday I posted a note about a new third configuration of the MacBook Pro that Apple was offering on the high end – a previously unannounced 2.16GHz model. When a sharp PowerPage reader noted that the new 2.16GHz MacBook Pro was being quoted as […]
I was excited yesterday to report that Apple had speed-bumped the MacBook Pro notebooks to 1.83 and 2.0GHz but disappointed that they also moved my ship date back almost two weeks as a result. Did Apple just throw us a bone? Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.