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2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: How Much Faster than 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max?
2022-07-14 Apple Core Rot: Invasive Spotlight Indexing Impairs Use of Your Mac
2022-06-25 Scalability of Focus Stacking: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra vs Apple 2019 Mac Pro 28-Core XEON W
2021-10-16 macOS: 3+ CPU Cores for up to several minutes after Rebooting
2020-01-19 Insanely Fast Data Integrity Checking with diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java
2020-01-05 2019 Mac Pro: Detailed Analysis of Phase One Capture One 20 Performance, GPU and CPU Utilization
2020-01-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: MUCH Slower CPU Cores than 2019 iMac 5K, but Lots More of 'em
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2022-01-22 Beware of Claims for Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max Speed Gains Over Intel! OpenCL on/off can be win/lose
2020-01-05 2019 Mac Pro: Detailed Analysis of Phase One Capture One 20 Performance, GPU and CPU Utilization
2019-11-29 Choosing a Computer for Advanced Photography (December 2019)
2019-10-01 Incredible Image Upscaling with Gigapixel AI (October 2019)
2019-09-20 Upscaling/Uprezzing Images: Gigapixel AI Stuns Versus Photoshop Upscaling
2019-05-27 My Experience with the 2019 iMac 5K So Far
2018-12-20 Apple 2018 Mac mini: Substantial Performance Gain over the Fastest 2017 iMac 5K
2017-12-20 iMac Pro Models for Photographers
2016-08-04 NEW! Cross Platform Java-Based diglloydTools IntegrityChecker
Fastest Mac Yet?..
World’s fastest laptop, beats nearly all desktops..
Trouncing Intel-based laptops and desktops alike..
Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..
Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..
True desktop-class performance..
Workhorse desktop tower..
Desktop Class Performance, memory, SSD..
Vastly improved performance over 2017 model, 6 CPU Cores..
Touchbar, wide gamut, unrivalled SSD..
An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..
High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..
RAID reliability in easy to configure 5-drive enclosure for full-size hard drives..
High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..
Even better than the 2015 model..
5K Display, blazingly fast SSD.
World’s first 5K Display.
Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, GPUs, memory, flash..
Performance of the 2013 Mac Pro..
How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..
Networking as fast as an SSD!.
When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..
Preferred configuration for best performance..
What you should know about CS5 performance..
The best hardware and configuration for Photoshop CS5..
How to configure a Mac to maximize Photoshop CS3/CS4 performance..
Speedups for working with images..
Learn about Activity Monitor and understand how CPU cores, processes, memory use, and software scalability affect performance..
How to make your software run faster on the same hardware!.
Monitoring tips and application CPU core scorecard..
An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.
Significant changes and issues in OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Just how fast is Apple’s new quad-core iMac?.
Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, and is 2010 Mac Pro faster or better than 2009 model?.
Optimizing specific application performance..
Apple’s fastest Mac as of Jan 2013?.
An iPad-sized laptop..
Reviews of various hardware and software..
2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: How Much Faster than 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max?
2022-07-14 Apple Core Rot: Invasive Spotlight Indexing Impairs Use of Your Mac
2022-06-25 Scalability of Focus Stacking: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra vs Apple 2019 Mac Pro 28-Core XEON W
2021-10-16 macOS: 3+ CPU Cores for up to several minutes after Rebooting
2020-01-19 Insanely Fast Data Integrity Checking with diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java
2020-01-05 2019 Mac Pro: Detailed Analysis of Phase One Capture One 20 Performance, GPU and CPU Utilization
2020-01-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: MUCH Slower CPU Cores than 2019 iMac 5K, but Lots More of 'em
2019-05-02 How Much are GPU and CPU Cores used by Photoshop Filters?
2019-05-02 How Much are GPU and CPU Cores used by Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details?
2019-02-09 Apple 2017 iMac 5K is a Terrific Machine, but Too Often It Impedes My Work
2018-12-20 Apple 2018 Mac mini: Substantial Performance Gain over the Fastest 2017 iMac 5K
2018-07-28 Reader Comment: Which Mac for Video?
2017-12-24 diglloydTools Updated to v 2.2.15, IntegrityChecker Sees up to 38% Speed Improvement
2017-12-23 Why More CPU Cores Often Run no Faster, and Sometimes Slower than Fewer CPU Cores
2017-12-23 Turbo Boost and the Intel Xeon W CPUs in the Apple iMac Pro
2017-12-03 4-Core CPUs are Easily Maxed-Out with a Few Simple Tasks
2017-10-22 Apple Kernel Bug? 2015 iMac 5K Runs at 0.8 GHz When Cold, Even with Warm Air Out Rear Vents
2017-08-11 MacOS Bug: Kernel Task Uses Most or All CPU Cores Continuously (Ambient Temperature Too High)
2017-07-18 2017 iMac 5K: XCode Build C++ Project
2017-07-16 Adobe Lightroom Performance: Inefficiencies Could be Fixed
2017-06-07 Assessing the Dec 2017 Apple iMac Pro
2017-01-03 Desktop CPU Performance at a Standstill?
2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: the 16GB Memory Limit in the + CPU Speed vs Other Macs
2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: What Options I Ordered, and Why
2016-08-04 NEW! Cross Platform Java-Based diglloydTools IntegrityChecker
2016-05-31 What a Bad Hard Drive Fails Like when Running diglloydTools 'fill-volume'
2016-05-26 Zerene Stacker: Good Example of a Program that Uses all the CPU Cores
2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: CPU Utilization During Network File Copy
2016-05-09 Photoshop CC 2015 Now Uses all the CPU Cores for RAW-File Conversion
2016-04-08 SSD Performance: Sufficiency for the CPU Cores
2016-03-27 What a Bad Hard Drive Fails Like when Running diglloydTools 'fill-volume'
2016-01-24 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.13
2015-12-05 iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: XCode Build diglloydTools
2015-12-05 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.12
2015-11-13 Testing Hard Drive Consistency for a RAID
2015-10-07 diglloydTools: Working Fine on El Capitan
2015-09-05 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID , or just Finding Dud or Flaky Drives in a Batch
2015-08-11 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar
2015-07-05 diglloydTools for Testing Drives, Data Integrity, Wiping Sensitive Files
2015-02-28 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11
2015-02-22 An Example of When More CPU Cores Mean Responsive vs Sluggish
2015-01-09 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar
2014-12-04 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11
2014-11-21 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.9
2014-11-12 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.8
2014-10-10 Photoshop and CPU Core Usage
2014-08-29 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b
2014-07-15 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7a
2014-06-08 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b1
2014-06-08 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar
2014-05-25 CPU Cores: Specifics Matter
2014-05-06 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.5
2014-01-21 2013 Mac Pro: DxO Optics Pro and Scalability with more CPU Cores
2014-01-17 2013 Mac Pro: 6 or 8 CPU Cores?
2014-01-13 Adobe Photoshop CC and CPU Cores: Does not Scale For Common Operations
2014-01-12 Adobe Photoshop CC Using More Cores Than Ever Before (NOT!)
2014-01-12 2013 Mac Pro: How Many CPU Cores for Your Workflow?
2013-12-28 2013 Mac Pro: Costly but Worth It? Or Costly and Slower?
2013-12-18 2013 Mac Pro: Which CPU and GPU?
2013-10-22 Notes on the Apple 2013 Mac Pro
2013-04-06 Why is a MacBook Pro Retina Faster for Photography than a 12-Core Mac Pro?
2012-05-28 Using all 12 CPU Cores
2011-07-20 Apple’s July 2011 MacBook Air
2011-06-24 Final Cut Pro X Usage of CPU Cores and Memory
2011-05-17 Upgrade Your Mac Pro to 3.46 GHz or Up to 12 CPU Cores
2011-05-13 Update on Photoshop CS5 DisallowFlateCompressedPSD.plugin
2011-03-15 How to Get a Mac Pro at 3.46 GHz with 6 or 12 CPU Cores
2011-02-04 Mac Pro: How Many CPU Cores?
2011-01-27 When More Is Less — 12 CPU Cores are Slower Than 6 CPU Cores with Photoshop
2010-09-10 Photoshop CS5 Scalability and Low-hanging Fruit
2010-09-02 Upgrade Your Mac Pro CPU to 3.33GHz and/or More CPU Cores!
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