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2023
2023-09-23 Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max: Apple Silicone Case Must be Removed to Connect USB-C Cable
2023-09-23 macOS Ventura Breaks Bluetooth Pairing— “not supported”
2023-09-22 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc34
2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura
2023-08-03 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc32
2023-08-02 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Sleep/Wakeup Causes Drastic Loss of Performance for both CPU and GPU — FIXED in macOS Ventura 13.5
2023-07-28 That Internal USB Port inside the 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra
2023-07-28 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc31 + DiskTester Java and other tools
2023-07-20 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max Strangely Slow with Adobe Lightroom
2023-07-19 Slowdown/Performance Variation with 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max... Ambient Temperature? Apparently not
2023-07-19 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: pair of OWC Accelsior 8M2 does 40 GB/sec?
2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Sleep/Wakeup Causes Drastic Loss of Performance for both CPU and GPU
2023-07-18 REVIEWED: 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra (UPDATED with corrected graphs)
2023-07-18 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Buggy Performance with GPU and CPU that Requires Reboot to Fix
2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Dropping CPU Performance at 3 or more CPU Cores
2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Large Losses in CPU and GPU Performance; Rebooting Recovers temporarily
2023-07-16 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Large Losses in GPU Performance Require Reboot
2023-07-15 JDK 21 Goes Crypto Native on Apple Silicon: 4X Faster IntegrityChecker, 2X Speed of Intel
2023-07-15 macOS Ventura Setup on 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra — kills an entire work day
2023-06-16 Parallels Virtual Machine Useless on Apple Silicon M1, M2
2023-06-05 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra/Max and Apple 2023 Mac Studio M2 Ultra/Max
2023-05-22 Deeply Discounted Used & New Macs at OWC
2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users
2023-05-02 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max vs Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Image Scaling with Topaz Gigapixel AI
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Assemble Panorama in Photoshop
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Maven Build Java App
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw, RAW to JPEG
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Photoshop Benchmarks
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: SSD Performance
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Integrity Checker Java 'verify'
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Memory Bandwidth
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: How Much Faster than 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max?
2023-02-16 REVIEWED: 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max
2023-01-17 Apple MacBook Pro M2 Max
2022
2022-07-14 2019 Mac Pro vs Mac Studio M1 Ultra: USB Speed Differs with many things, such as OWC Envoy Pro EX 8TB USB-C SSD
2022-06-25 Scalability of Focus Stacking: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra vs Apple 2019 Mac Pro 28-Core XEON W
2022-06-24 Reader Comments on Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra
2022-06-24 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Fan Noise
2022-06-22 REVIEWED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra — Now with Updated Results for Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — Big Speed Improvements
2022-06-21 Adobe Releases Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — FIXES Serious Performance Bugs on Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Java Web Server Startup
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Build Java App with Apache Maven
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SHA512 Hashing Speed Scalability
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Create Multi-Res Image Series
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Hasselblad X1D
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Nikon D850
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Sony A7R IV
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Fujifilm GFX100S, Fujifilm GFX50S
2022-06-19 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, PhaseOne IQ4
2022-06-19 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Photoshop CC 2022: Filters — 2X CPU and GPU Cores and Memory = SLOWER
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: IntegrityChecker, Verify (SHA512 Hashing, Multithreaded)
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Memory Bandwidth
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SSD Speed
2022-06-16 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra SLOWER than M1 Max?
2022-06-15 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Up And Running
2022-06-12 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Coming Soon for Testing
2022-05-12 Apple Mac Studio Coming for Review... When Supply Chain Delivers
2022-03-23 Apple Mac Studio Coming for Review... When Supply Chain Delivers
2022-03-11 Apple M1 Ultra CPU: a Technological Tour de Force Joining Two M1 Max Chips on the Same Die with UltraFusion
2022-03-11 Apple M1 Ultra CPU GPU Performance: Fastest CPU and GPU in a PC/Mac in History? With Ultra Low Power Consumption
2022-03-09 Apple Mac Studio with M1 Ultra Looks to Offer Thrilling Performance
2022-02-14 macOS Monterey: Constantly Loses 2nd Display Coming out of Sleep, Forces me to Reboot 2-3 Times Every Day — Thunderbolt = voodoo
2022-01-26 TESTED: Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max — a Stunning Performer That Crushes Intel-Based Macs
2022-01-18 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Here Soon for Testing
2022-01-01 SHA-512 Hashing Speed in Java: 2019 Mac Pro, 2019 iMac 5K, 2020 iMac 5K, 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max
2021
2021-12-22 Apple M1 Macs: Not a Mature Solution for General Usage eg Java Virtual Machine
2021-12-16 Java for Apple M1 Macs
2021-11-26 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Should be Here for Review in a Few Weeks
2021-11-01 MacBook Pro M1 Max Shipping in 2022 — Consider a 10-Core iMac 5K with Gorgeous Large Display Instead, and Save $1500 too!
2021-10-22 Fastest SSD Yet in the MacBook Pro M1 Max, but Will Apps Run Things Faster Because of It?
2021-10-22 Only the 16-Inch Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max offers “High Power Mode” for Intensive Usage
2021-10-21 Will We Have an Apple M1 Max Duo and Quad in 2022? Intel-Based Solutions to Become Performance Dinosaurs Overnight?
2021-10-20 Can the Apple M1 Max chip be Scaled to 25 CPU Cores and 80 GPU Cores by late 2022 via TSMC 3nm Technology?
2021-10-20 Apple M1 Max Chip: Apparent Die Size of 432 mm^2 Dwarfs Just About Everything Else, Far Beyond Any Competitor
2021-10-20 The 'Killer' Mac that Apple is NOT Offering, and Might Never — the Apple Mac Workhorse
2021-10-20 Reader Comment: “what Apple did with the M1 Max, it’s very impressive... Intel is really in deep trouble”
2021-10-19 Big Thanks to B&H Photo — Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro Coming For Review
2021-10-19 Storage and Accessories by OWC Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros M1 Pro/M1 Max
2021-10-18 Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros Here, with M1 Max or M1Pro CPU: What You Need to Know
2021-10-13 Apple ARM M1X CPU Macs eg MacBook Pro Next Week... Time to Consider?
2021-06-18 With the Delay of Apple M1/M2 Pro Macs, What to Do Now?
2021-05-18 Apple Readies new Crop of Pro Mac using Apple M1/M2 Chip Technology
2021-04-21 OWC Solutions for Apple M1 iPad Pro
2021-04-20 Apple 24-Inch iMac with M1 CPU — Home Run for Mainstream Usage, Iffy for Photographers
2021-01-22 Will Apple M1 Macs Become More Reliable than Intel-based Macs?
2020
2020-11-28 Apple M1 Macs: Single-Core Performance is Awesome, Multi-Core Lags the Professional Intel Macs
2020-11-28 First Iteration of Apple M1 Macs: 16GB memory Limit Puts Hard Ceiling on Potential Uses
2020-11-18 OWC ANNOUNCES PRODUCT COMPATIBILITIES WITH NEW APPLE M1 MACS
2020-06-30 Thoughts on Apple’s Transition away from Intel CPUs to Apple ARM, macOS Big Sur