iPhones beat out Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone in browser benchmark, despite earlier reports
359gsm (via My Nokia Blog) recently pitted the iOS 4.3-based iPhone 4 and the iOS 5-based iPhone 4S against a Windows Phone 7.5 Mango-based Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone in various benchmark tests. In every test, both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S significantly outperform one of the best Windows Phone options on the market. This...
Report: Intel releasing Ivy Bridge CPUs April 8, will likely land in future Macs
According to Taiwanese PC manufacturers (via DigiTimes), Intel is preparing to release the first round of 22nm Ivy Bridge desktop, notebook, and ultrabook CPUs around April, 8 2012. Seventeen models are slated to be launched, but some desktop and notebook CPUs will likely replace current CPU options in next-generation iMacs and Macbooks. The 3820QM and 3720QM...
Iomega Mac Companion: Your iMac’s soulmate
A few weeks ago I wrote a review of the Iomega eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive. That review was very favorable -- the drive was relatively fast, very solidly built, and is designed to match the aluminum cases of Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air ...
Thunderbolt Display – Data Transfer Speed Testing
We were pretty exited to receive our first few Thunderbolt Displays yesterday. If you want a closer look – we released some unboxing photos before we started our testing. We set off to see just how good essentially the world’s first Thunder...
Macworld benchmarks i5 MacBook Airs
After one week on the market, the first good benchmarks of the new MacBook Air models are beginning to show up. Macworld ran benchmarks of the i5-based 11.6" and 13" MBAs and found them to be quite fast in everyday operations. The Macworld lab is ...
Apple’s New MacBook Airs Beat Some High-End MacBook Pros in Early Benchmark Tests
Apple’s latest lineup of MacBook Air ultraportables are not only significantly faster than their predecessors, but thanks to those new Core i5 and i7 processors, they also beat the high-end 2010 MacBook Pro in early benchmark tests. According to the Geekbench benchmarking tools, the...Western Digital’s 3 TB MyBook Studio perfect for pre-Lion backups
Are you about to upgrade your Mac to OS X Lion? One recommendation from the TUAW staff is that you do a complete backup of your Snow Leopard installation before you start. With many Mac internal drives nearing the 1 to 2 TB range in size, how do you...
Mac OS X 10.6.8 benchmark reveals graphic speed improvement
Sure, the (hopefully) last version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released yesterday. Yes, it addressed a laundry list of improvements to both networking and Mac OS X Lion readiness. But did you know that installing Mac OS X 10.6.8 might also i...
New iMacs 25 percent faster than previous generation
A few days ago, we reported on Macworld's benchmark results for the new Sandy Bridge-equipped iMacs. Macworld found them to be, on average, about 16 percent faster in the Speedmark 6.5 test than the previous generation. Now Primate Labs has put to...
2011 iMac Benchmark Testing With the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD
What a whirlwind of information these new iMacs have been creating. Just a few hours after the machines were released, we had five out of the six base models unboxed and going through our gamut of tests. We were shocked when we installed our new OWC Me...
Testing: RAID 0 in a MacBook Pro using the Data Doubler.
Among the different configuration options available when using the OWC Data Doubler in your MacBook or MacBook Pro is setting both drives to function as a RAID 0 (striped) array. This combines both drives (the one in the Data Doubler equipped optical b...
Apple confirms some WebKit optimizations unavailable to iOS Apps
The web performance enhancements included in Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, are exclusively available to the mobile Safari web browser, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed. The optimizations, which double JavaScript performance in M...
