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Apple confirms some WebKit optimizations unavailable to iOS Apps

by Dana Franklin (Mar 18th, 2011)

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 Mobile Safari, are not available to the ...

Android vs. iPhone in 'flawed' mobile browser performance test

by Dana Franklin (Mar 17th, 2011)

Post edited to clarify that the browser testing is not representative of Safari performance, and included Blaze response to CNET. –Ed. Blaze Software, a Canadian software company, today released the results of what it calls a "definitive" research effort to discover "which [mobile] ...

iMovie on iPad 2 beats most Macs in benchmarks

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2011)

Benchmark information from AppAdvice.com If the results of benchmarks run by Tim Chaten at AppAdvice are any indication, anyone looking for a good, fast iMovie workstation for doing editing in the field should take a close look at the app running on an iPad 2. Chaten wanted to see how ...

Intel announces Core 2011 processor details; hackintosh fans post benchmarks

by Steven Sande (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Intel, the company that makes the processors used in every Mac currently being manufactured, officially announced the details of the new Sandy Bridge processors, otherwise known as the Intel Core 2011 processors. These are the second generation of the Core processors found in many of Apple's ...

Report: Core i7 MacBook Pros running hot

by Dave Caolo (Apr 26th, 2010)

Tests performed by PC Authority found a Core i7 MacBook Pro to be running very hot, climbing to over 100 degrees Celsius. The magazine had a Core i7-620M based 17" MacBook Pro on their hands for testing. While putting it through their benchmark suite, they noticed that it scored lower in ...

Macworld 2010: OWC's Grant Dahlke demos USB 3.0 drive, fastest SSD

by Steven Sande (Feb 12th, 2010)

Mac expansion powerhouse Other World Computing always has something incredible to show off at Macworld Expo, and there was no doubt about it when we visited the OWC booth on Thursday. OWC's Grant Dahlke displayed some of the new products coming out from the company, including their first USB 3.0 ...

Intel uses iTunes for benchmarking

by Aron Trimble (Jan 11th, 2010)

Here's a bit of interesting for you from the folks over at APC: during a press event at CES 2010, Intel used iTunes to tout its latest processors rather than one of the other oft-used performance-testing suites. Specifically, they showed off an i5 processor not by running some complex graphics ...

Will Snow Leopard really make my computer any faster?

by Lauren Hirsch (Sep 4th, 2009)

We've seen the benchmarks. We've heard from the techno-geeks. According to Apple, Snow Leopard should result in some impressive speed gains, and hefty hard drive space recapture. But does this speed bump actually result in tangible benefits for the average user? Do you really get back a functional ...

Snow Leopard performance improvements are there, but small

by Casey Johnston (Aug 27th, 2009)

Snow Leopard is purported to provide many small but much-needed tweaks to its predecessor, Leopard. One oft-touted tweak is a speed boost, but according to tests by Macworld the performance and speed of a few different computers improved only slightly with many native tasks, and some took even ...

File under "This won't last": new white MacBook benchmarks faster than unibody model

by Michael Rose (Jun 6th, 2009)

In a thorough review of the new speed-bumped white MacBook, Macworld notes an intriguing fact: the 2.13GHz model of the $999 entry-level laptop actually outperforms the base unibody model. The magazine's benchmarks show a 4 percent advantage for the new white MacBook over the $1299 2GHz aluminum ...

Leopard running on an Atom Processor

by Brett Terpstra (May 27th, 2008)

Using PC_efi technology (a means to run OS X on a PC without kernel modification), an anonymous source for netkas.org has managed to run and benchmark Leopard on an Atom chip, which is rumored (and denied) to be headed for Mac. The Atom Processor would certainly make a good candidate for a ...

ZDNet: Benchmarking the Psystar Open Computer

by Robert Palmer (May 14th, 2008)

It's a big day for the Psystar Open Computer -- the quasi-Mac clone based on PC hardware and a cracked version of Mac OS X. ZDNet today published their comparison of the Open Computer with a Mac mini, and all three flavors of MacBook. The results? The Open Computer fares pretty well against all of ...

Engadget benchmarks the new iMac

by Scott McNulty (Apr 29th, 2008)

Our friends over at Engadget got their hands on one of the newly released iMacs (the 3.06GHz model, to be exact) and they have put it through its paces. Using XBench, and running Leopard, they compare the new iMac to a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, and a previous gen iMac. The new iMac bests ...

MacBook performance boost

by Mat Lu (May 24th, 2007)

At first glance, last week's MacBook update did not appear to be anything to write home about. However, some benchmarks are starting to come out that show a non-negligible performance boost on the new 'Books. Macworld has found that the new top end 2.16GHz black MacBook bests previous top end white ...

Mac Pro benchmark roundup

by David Chartier (Aug 11th, 2006)

Other sites are already getting their hands on Mac Pros and putting them through the benchmark ringer, and since we aren't done checking the couch for change yet, I figured a benchmark roundup would be the best way to let you sink your teeth into some cold, hard numbers. If you've been waiting to ...