QUICK TAKES
* Other World Computing is shipping Accelsior, a PCIe based 6Gb/s SSD. No cables or drivers required for this screamer that also boots OS X.
* Trans International has new quad-port ProStor enclosures for both desktop and notebook SATA drives.
ARTICLES by date
April 6th, 2012 -- Souping Up the Mac Pro: RocketCache 3240X8
March 21st, 2012 -- iPAD CELLULAR DATA SHOOTOUT: 4G LTE versus 3G technologies
March 20th, 2012 (Appended) -- SHOOTOUT: 2012 'Retina' iPad versus other iPads -- (Added more graphics test results)
March 9th, 2012 -- REVIEW: Elgato Thunderbolt SSD bus-powered accessory for MacBook Air, etc.
March 7th, 2012 -- Five Reasons to Buy the 2012 "Retina" iPad
March 2, 2012 -- COMING SOON TO MAC PRO? The Radeon HD 7970 versus existing GPUs -- added GeForce GTX 580 on March 5th
February 23rd, 2012 (update) -- X-Plane 10 on four of the latest Macs (Came up with tougher test and added GeForce GTX 285 and Radeon HD 5770 gpus.)
February 3rd, 2012 -- USB 3.0 ROUNDUP #2: Desktop (3.5") Enclosures
February 3rd, 2012 (update) -- USB 3.0 ROUNDUP: Notebook Enclosures and Flash Drives
January 27, 2012 -- iBling for your iThing: headsets for your iPad and iPhone
January 10th, 2012 -- REVIEW: FirmTek miniSwap Dual Bay Trayless 6Gb/s eSATA Enclosure
January 5th, 2012 -- MISSING PIECES -- Features missing from existing products
December 30th, 2011 -- SHOOTOUT: Dual Bay Notebook Drive Enclosures for the 2011 MacBook Pro (Added photos and features of each enclosure on Dec 31st)
December 8th, 2011 -- SHOOTOUT: Seagate's Gen 2 Hybrid HDD versus Gen 1 Hybrid, normal HDD, and pure SSD
November 18th, 2011 -- SUPERCHARGED STORAGE: 2011 MacBook Air 6Gb/s Upgrade by Other World Computing
November 11th, 2011 -- THUNDERBOLT SHOOTOUT: LaCie Little Big Disk versus Promise Pegasus R4 (Updated Nov 19th with Finder Duplicate and OS X Restart test results.)
November 4th, 2011 -- PRO APP SHOOTOUT: Did the performance gap shrink between the Mac Pro and other Macs?
October 28th, 2011 -- Dirt2 and X-Plane on Five 'Top' 2011 Macs
October 21, 2011 -- MERE MORTAL APPS: Can the 2011 Mac mini keep up with the other Macs running apps like iTunes, iMovie, and HandBrake?
October 14th, 2011 -- SHOOTOUT: iPhone 4 versus iPhone 4S (another graph added on October 17th)
October 5th, 2011 -- Steve Jobs has died. Read his "find what you love" speech given in June 2005 where he speaks of how he faced life and death. Or watch it on YouTube.
September 29th, 2011 -- Amazon's Kindle Fire takes aim at Apple's iPod/iPad Gap
September 1st, 2011 -- USB 3.0 RAID: Storage for Mac Pro Owners with Thunderbolt Envy -- (Review HighPoint RocketU Quad)
Updated August 26th, 2011 -- Final Cut Pro X: Six of the newest Macs duke it out -- (added MacBook Air and Mac mini)
Updated August 26th, 2011 -- APERTURE SHOOTOUT: 2011 Mac Laptops versus 2011 Mac Desktops -- (added Mac mini server)
August 18th, 2011 -- "A BALANCED APPROACH": Cost Effective Data Storage Expansion Without Data Compromise (intro to the HighPoint EJ220 Device Board)
August 5th, 2011 -- MINIMALISTIC MACs: The 2011 Mac mini versus itself and the MacBook Air
July 29th, 2011 -- PERFORMANCE SNAPSHOT: Four models of 2011 MacBook Air versus a mixture of nine other Apple laptops.
July 27th, 2011 -- FLASH STORAGE SHOOTOUT: 2011 MacBook Air with Toshiba, Samsung, and Aura
July 22nd, 2011 -- EARLY BENCHMARKS: 2011 MacBook Air versus other Apple laptops running Cinebench, Handbrake, Motion, and Portal
July 20th, 2011 -- EARLY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: 2011 MacBook Air
July 12th, 2011 -- SHOOTOUT: Thunderbolt RAID versus other storage options
(Added Pegasus R4 with four 6Gb/s SSDs in RAID 0 mode on July 15th)
July 1st, 2011 -- GPU SHOOTOUT: Which one works best with Apple's Motion 5?
(Appended with results from two MacBook Pros on July 13th)
June 24th, 2011 -- WBS SHOOTOUT: Verizon 4G LTE portable hotspot versus other wireless broadband solutions
June 17th, 2011 -- PRO APP SHOOTOUT: 2011 Core i5 iMacs versus CTO Core i7 iMac
June 9th, 2011 -- REACHING FOR 3000MB/s: Eight Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs and the RocketRAID 2744 Host Adapter
June 3rd, 2011 -- NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac speeds up Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve -- (includes comparison to three other GPUs)
May 27th, 2011 -- INVENTORS CORNER: 3 new products from 3 new entrepreneurs
May 20th, 2011 -- OS X versus Windows Gaming: Is there still a performance gap?
May 19th, 2011 -- Top 'mid 2011' iMac running Pro Apps vs other top Macs (including After Effects, Photoshop, Photozoom, and Squeeze)
May 13th, 2011 -- FAST and FEATURE RICH: FirmTek SeriTek/6G ExpressCard
May 12th, 2011 -- GAMING SHOOTOUT: Four 2011 iMacs versus other Macs (includes results for Portal 2, L4D2, Borderlands, Starcraft 2, and WoW.)
May 7th, 2011 (updated) -- SHOOTOUT: Four 2011 iMacs versus the fastest 2010 iMac (includes three CPU and three GPU tests; added iMac 3.4Ghz Core i7 and Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-core Westmere)
May 3rd, 2011 -- PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS of the 2011 iMac (Updated May 4th with more info on VRAM and 6Gb/s ports.)
April 29th, 2011 -- 6Gb/s SSDs in various RAID sets on the Mac Pro
April 22nd, 2011 -- Making 6Gb/s SSDs Go Full Speed on the Mac Pro (updated April 29th)
April 12th, 2011 -- SSD SHOOTOUT: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD versus other SSDs
April 8th, 2011 -- PHOTOSHOP CS5 SHOOTOUT: 2011 MacBook Pros versus 2010 Macs
April 7th, 2011 (New Data) -- STORAGE SHOOTOUT: OCZ Vertex 3 6Gb/s SSD in 2011 MacBook Pro versus other HDDs and SSDs
March 31st, 2011 -- AFTER EFFECTS SHOOTOUT: 2011 MacBook Pros versus others
March 31st, 2011 (Updated) -- WEAK vs STRONG: Three 2011 MacBook Pro graphics processors compared -- (added 13" 2010 MBP with 320M GPU)
March 19th, 2011 -- SHOOTOUT: iPad 2 versus iPad 1 and iPhone 4
March 10th, 2011 -- EXTREME GAMING: 2011 MacBook Pro versus two Mac desktops
March 9th, 2011 (updated) -- iPad versus Xoom, iPhone versus Atrix (UPDATE: added SunSpider Javascript benchmark results for iPad 1 and iPhone 4 after installing iOS 4.3. Will add iPad 2 soon.)
March 3rd, 2011 -- 3D GAME SHOOTOUT: two 2011 MacBook Pros versus one 2010 MacBook Pro
March 2nd, 2011 (updated) -- WISH LIST FOR 2011: What I Want From Apple
February 25th, 2011 -- MACBOOK PRO SHOOTOUT: Last Year versus This Year (Geekbench, Cinebench, and HandBrake results for 17" and 13" models)
February 24th, 2011 -- EARLY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: 2011 "Sandy Bridge" MacBook Pros
February 18th, 2011 -- PART TWO: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac running OS X Pro Apps (versus three other GPUs).
February 1st, 2011 -- FIRST LOOK: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac versus other top GPU
January 21st, 2011 -- STORAGE DEBUT: The ProStor series from TransIntl.com
January 7th, 2011 -- ROUNDUP: Notebook RAID for the Mac -- (six variations compared)
December 31st, 2010 -- SHOOTOUT: Hitachi 3TB 7K3000 versus other large capacity 7K SATA drives
December 23rd, 2010 -- STOCKING STUFFERS for Mac Lovers
December 21st, 2010 -- TOOLS FOR ARTISTS: Preserving the Priceless
December 10th, 2010 (Updated) -- FIRST TAKE: Aperture 3 versus Lightroom 3 -- (added IMPORT graph and comment on multiple adjustment speed gap)
December 7th, 2010 -- Find a Pearl Harbor survivor and listen to his or her story. If you can't find one, check out Joe Morgan's story.
November 30th, 2010 -- HOLIDAY DEALS continue from BareFeats' advertisers
November 19th, 2010 (Updated) -- STORAGE INNOVATION: USB 3.0 comes to the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro (from LaCie, CalDigit, and others) -- added special counterpoint from Chris Karr of Western Digital
November 5th, 2010 (Appended) -- NEW vs OLD: 2010 MacBook Airs vs previous models -- "Why are the new ones faster than the old ones running at the same speed?" (We added a few more old models to the graphs.)
November 5th, 2010 (Appended) -- HANDBRAKE SHOOTOUT: Mac Pros vs iMacs vs MacBook Pros -- (More Macs added to the mix.)
November 4th, 2010 -- BY LAND and BY AIR: External Storage for 2010 MacBook Air
October 27th, 2010 -- GRAPHICS GALLOP: Two MacBook Airs versus Two MacBook Pros
October 27th, 2010 -- CPU CRUNCH: Two MacBook Airs versus Two MacBook Pros
October 25th, 2010 -- PROBLEM SOLVED: Three Ways To Overcome The Lack of a Backlit Keyboard on the 2010 MacBook Air
October 23rd, 2010 (Updated) -- EARLY ANALYSIS: 2010 MacBook Air -- added some speed test results for 11" MBA (memory, flash storage, usb)
October 14th, 2010 -- MORE THAN EYE CANDY: Apple 27" LED Cinema Display
October 8th, 2010 -- THINK INSIDE THE BOX: Internal Storage Innovations for the Mac Pro
October 6th, 2010 -- BARE FEATS SUPPORTER: The MacGurus Story
September 29th, 2010 (Updated) -- EXTERNAL STORAGE INNOVATIONS for Mac Pros -- (Added results for ATTO R680 SAS RAID adapter.)
September 15th, 2010 -- REAL WORLD SHOOTOUT part 2: 2010 Mac Pros versus others -- (Aperture, Color, HandBrake, and PhotoZoom)
September 10th, 2010 -- IS THERE A BIG DIFFERENCE? Radeon HD 5870 versus 5770 on various Mac Pro models -- (5 models, 7 apps, 2 newest GPUs)
September 8th, 2010 (Update) -- Mac Pro 2008 GPUs: Radeon HD 5870 + 5770 versus older ones -- (Added GTX 285 results and info on support of 3 displays on 5870 and 5770.)
September 1st, 2010 -- REAL WORLD EXTREME APPS: Various 2010 Mac Pros compared running After Effects, Compressor, and Motion
August 31st, 2010 -- FIRST GEN SHOOTOUT: Radeon HD 5870 and 5770 in the 2006 Mac Pro versus four older GPUs
August 30th, 2010 -- SERIOUS FUN: Radeon HD 5870 versus 5770 and three other GPUs
August 27th, 2010 -- IT WORKS! The Radeon HD 5870 runs fine in the 2006 Mac Pro
August 25th, 2010 -- ONE CARD, THREE MACS: Radeon HD 5870 runs in the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Mac Pro.
August 23rd, 2010 -- 3D GAME SHOOTOUT: 2010 Mac Pro versus others -- (Just Portal for now but more on the way.)
August 23rd, 2010 -- EARLY CPU BENCHMARKS: 2010 Mac Pro versus 2009 and 2008
August 20th, 2010 (updated*) -- PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS: 'mid 2010' Mac Pro Westmere with up to 12 cores -- (*8G memory modules confirmed to work in 6-core model)
August 19th, 2010 -- BEFORE/AFTER: How the SL Graphics Update affected last year's fastest Mac
August 17th, 2010 (appended*) -- OLD vs NEW: 'mid 2010' iMacs compared to 2007-2009 iMacs -- (*added a Portal First Slice graph -- see bottom of page)
August 17th, 2010 (appended*) -- 'mid 2010' iMacs Compared: Core i3 vs Core i5 vs Core i7 -- (*added a Portal First Slice graph -- see bottom of page)
August 13th, 2010 (appended*) -- STORAGE SHOOTOUT: 'mid 2010' iMac internal drive options compared -- (*added screaming third party SSD)
August 3rd, 2010 -- CPU CRUNCH TIME: 'mid 2010' iMac Core i7 versus other Macs
August 2nd, 2010 (appended) -- 3D SHOOTOUT at 2560x1440: 'mid 2010' iMac Core i7 versus two other Macs -- added results from booting 2009 iMac with 2010 iMac drive (moo ha ha)
July 27th, 2010 -- PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS: 'mid 2010' iMac
July 23rd, 2010 -- SHOOTOUT: Fastest 2TB SATA Hard Drives of 2010
July 19th, 2010 -- SHOOTOUT: SD and CF memory cards for digital cameras
July 2nd, 2010 -- SHOOTOUT: 13" MacBook Pro 'mid 2010' versus the 15" Alternatives
June 28th, 2010 -- SPECIAL FEATURE: Photography Lighting on a Budget: The Lightscoop (by Bettay)
June 25th, 2010 -- FOUR SPEED TESTS: iPhone 3GS versus iPhone 4
June 18th, 2010 -- SHOOTOUT: Seagate Hybrid Notebook Drive versus HDD and SSD
June 15th, 2010 -- SPECIAL FEATURE: Snowflake USB Microphone (by Bettay)
June 11th, 2010 (update) -- STEAM FOR MAC: Portal and Team Fortress 2 on Three Fast Macs -- added results for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 GPU
June 10th, 2010 -- SMART PHONE FEATURE FIGHT: iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 4 vs EVO 4G
June 4th, 2010 -- External SSD RAID: As fast as internal? (Part Two: MacBook Pro)
June 1st, 2010 -- External SSD RAID: As fast as internal? (Part One: Mac Pro)
May 21st, 2010 -- Apple iPad 3G: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
May 7th, 2010 -- YET ANOTHER PRO SHOOTOUT: Photoshop CS5, After Effects CS5, and Aperture 3 on the newest Macs
April 30th, 2010 -- Apple iPad "+3G": Broadband Babe or Pig-in-a-Poke?
April 29th, 2010 (Updated) -- STORAGE ROUND-UP: HDD and SSD Choices for MACBOOK PRO Core i5 and i7 -- added OCZ Vertex LE and Intel X25-M results
April 27th, 2010 -- MACBOOK PRO VIDEO MEMORY: Do you need 512MB or is 256MB enough?
April 23rd, 2010 -- 3D GAME SHOOTOUT: MacBook Pro Core i5 and i7 versus other Macs
April 21st, 2010 -- REAL WORLD PRO APPS: MacBook Pro Core i5 and i7 versus similar Macs.
April 16th, 2010 -- EARLY TEST RESULTS: MacBook Pro Core i5 and i7 versus other Macs.
April 13th, 2010 -- PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS: MacBook Pro Core i5 and Core i7
April 7th, 2010 -- Apple iPad: Toy or Weapon?
April 5th, 2010 (updated) -- Sprint 4G Overdrive portable WiFi hotspot (added new results for iPad WiFi; new firmware made iPhone 3GS to download faster)
March 30th, 2010 -- Tests In Progress (or What We Are Working On)
March 22nd, 2010 -- SHARED SECURITY: Stardom Safe Capsule
March 13th, 2010 (Updated) -- SHOOTOUT: Final Cut Studio (Compressor 3 vs 3.5 and Motion 3 vs 4) -- added Radeon HD 4870
March 5th, 2010 (Addendum) -- REVIEW: OWC's Serious Solid State Drive (Enterprise-Class for the Rest of Us) -- added results for up to 4 SSDs
February 11th, 2010 -- MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO: Past, Present, and Future
January 29th, 2010 -- PARADIGM SHIFT: Apple iPad Critique
January 19th, 2010 -- MOBILITY Products for 2010
January 8th, 2010 -- SHOOTOUT: Google Nexus One versus Apple iPhone 3GS
January 5th, 2010 (Updated) -- SHOOTOUT: iPhone 3GS versus Droid Eris (added info on Google Nexus One)
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