performance

I demo'd a 15 inch MBP today in store. It was the Touch Bar and Touch ID 2.6GHz 6-Core Processor Radeon Pro 555X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 memory 256GB SSD storage And I put it against my 1967 Macbook Pro 2015 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris Graphics...

I'm in the market for a new MacBook Pro (though I may wait a couple of months to see if a 16" model materialises). My budget is yet to be decided but will exceed the entry price of the current 15" model. So, given a starting point of current base 15" MacBook Pro: Processor: 2.6GHz 6-core...

I’m currently in a little dilemma between what iMac to buy. It has to be a 27inch 5k. Which of these is better; Brand new 2019 3.0GHz 6-Core Processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz, 1TB Storage, 8GB Ram, Radeon Pro 570X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory Or Pre-owned Late 2015 4.0GHz Core i7 Quad...

I’ve found the Tip:- ATI Rage 128 in Leopard thread to be one of the more invaluable finds when optimizing the very best from older PPC equipment bundled with that video card. It’s why I have, for instance, the Jaguar kexts active for the ATI Rage 128 card in my iBook G3 466 running Tiger. This...

I'm choosing between two Macbook Pro laptops (employer will be paying) and would love some advice! Option 1 i7 2.6GHz/32GB RAM/512GB/Radeon 560X Option 2 i7 2.2GHz/32GB RAM/1TB/Radeon 555X I don't have a ton of experience with recent Apple laptops--my team chose Apple as our work purchase...

Hello, I've got a Mac Pro 3,1 running High Sierra with 48GB RAM (6/8 Slots) and 3,2Ghz CPU Upgrade running from SATA SSD. In Virtualbox I get a strange bahavior for Windows 10 VMs. The Guest CPU ist shown as 100% utilized, but on the host it is not. Other Windows VMs run fine. Can someone...

Hi I've just jumped into the world of 360 video editing. I currently have a 2015 max spec MacBook Pro which is dying and I'm looking for a new model. I'm looking for a second hand 2016/2017/2018 model but want to spend maximum £2000. My most important requirement is video editing...

Hey guys! I'm choosing a new MacBook and persist in a quiet a confusion after several days of reading and thinking. :) I choose between 2018 rMBA and 2018 13' tbMBP. And specific configurations. The cornerstone of Mac's resources use is that I'm unfortunately forced to use a single (damn!)...

My wife has a late 2013 21.5" iMac with 2.7 GHz Core i5, 8GB memory, Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB graphics, and a 1 GB 5400 RPM hard drive (25% used). It's gotten slower and slower over the years, but has always been sluggish. I remember being disappointed when we bought it. I was about to buy a new...

Hi, just wondering, for those of you with non-retina MBAs.... how is the performance / speed on Mojave? would you recommend updating ? any other pointers? (I heard about some issues with font clarity...) thanks !

Hi everyone, I have come across a very good and limited (5 units) sale for an almost new MBP 2018 with 8GB of RAM. I'd aim for 16GB, but the deal I can get is only for the base Touchbar model (but with 512GB storage). I know a lot of you guys know more about this stuff than I do, so I really...

I'm finding Safari on Mojave very nearly useless on some sites like YouTube. Slowness in page redraws, mainly. Long waits for items to appear. Like I'm on dial-up in 1998 or something. I've cleared the cache and reset Safari. I've tried turning iCloud syncing off and on again. Disabled...

I have a Mac mini 2009 late, this is also my first Mac. I upgrade it from Maverick to El Capitan, I think its speed is too slow and I want to know: If I clean install El Capitan again, will the speed be faster than now in general?

Thought I’d try asking in the iPhone forum: I’m trying to decide between a refurbished 8 plus and X and one factor for me is whether the plus models still suffer from stutters in animations etc. when compared to their smaller counterparts (and the X), or whether the leaps in GPU performance...

I’m trying to decide between a refurbished 8 plus and X and one factor for me is whether the plus models still suffer from stutters in animations etc. when compared to their smaller counterparts (and the X), or whether the leaps in GPU performance since the 6 Plus combined with iOS 12 means this...

Hello I own a MacBookPro 2018 i9 (highest frequency), 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD. Since I am a wedding photographer I work with Lightroom CC (current version). And beside of the open MacBook Pro Screen I am using the EIZO 27" 2550px x xxxpx. Currently I see Mac fan is blowing on a high frequency when...

Hello. I have a MacBook 2016 with m7 8GB ram. I’m most rly using it for web development and some design using Sketch. Overall I was quite satisfied with its performance. Several days ago I decided to buy an external 1440p monitor and connected it with a the official apple usb-c to HDMI...

I'm doing an initial Backblaze backup of around 6TB total. After 2 weeks of non-stop backing up, it's completed 1.3TB or 650GB / week. If it doesn't speed up, it will take roughly 2 months total or 6 more weeks for my initial backup to complete. My performance settings are: Manual Throttle...

Reviews are finally rolling in on YouTube. Finally a review compared exporting a video on a maxed out 15” 2018 vs 2017. The 2017 finished exporting it 2 minutes faster because the i9 throttled so bad causing worse performance when compared to the maxed i7 CPU in the 2017 model. Another more...

My mac was very slow at switching desktops, 5-10 seconds per switch, and it would often beach ball when trying to interact with the menu bar. I also noticed that the Windowserver process would spike to over 100% CPU utilization whenever a tried to switch desktops. I was getting ready to nuke...