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..
Improved performance over 2016 model..
Touchbar, wide gamut, unrivalled SSD..
An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..
Evolving the platform with a hyper fast SSD..
SSDs or hard drives for fast single-drive or RAID volumes in a portable enclosure..
Reviews of Thunderbolt products..
High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..
Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.
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..
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..
Monitoring tips and application CPU core scorecard..
An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.
Nuts and bolts of buying a Mac, and recommended extras..
Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.
Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, and is 2010 Mac Pro faster or better than 2009 model?.
Why 4 cores are often faster than 8!.
Maxing-out your MacBook Pro Core i7 with memory and drives..
Optimizing specific application performance..
Ultra-fast solid state storage with hardware RAID for a Mac Pro in a PCIe slot..
Ultra-fast PCIe SSD for Classic Mac Pro or Thunderbolt Macs.
Huge capacity in a speedy SATA SSD..
Various SATA and USB SSDs..
Fast 6 Gbps high capacity SSD..
High Capacity internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro..
Fast and durable, enterprise-grade solid state drives..
Choosing and using solid state drives..
Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..
Apple’s fastest Mac as of Jan 2013?.
Higher performance Retina model..
Apple’s 2012 MacBook Pro Retina Display..
Apple’s 2012 MacBook Pro (non Retina)..
A review of Apple’s first quad-core laptop..
How does the 2010 MacBook Air fare in the context of photography?.
A review of Apple’s first Core i7 laptop..
2009/2010 Mac Pro Memory — How Much for Performance?.
Reviews of various hardware and software..
Configuring and optimizing..
Technical performance data..
Modern Macs use USB3 and Thunderbolt..
Blog posts
2023
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Photoshop Benchmarks
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Assemble Panorama in Photoshop
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: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: How Much Faster than 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max?
2022
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 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 Adobe Releases Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — FIXES Serious Performance Bugs on Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra
2022-06-19 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Photoshop CC 2022: Filters — 2X CPU and GPU Cores and Memory = SLOWER
2022-06-16 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra SLOWER than M1 Max?
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
2021
2021-12-05 Super-Fast SSD Better for Adobe Photoshop?
2021-11-26 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Should be Here for Review in a Few Weeks
2021-11-02 Will Apple Ever Fix the Kernel Panic Problems in macOS?
2021-10-19 Big Thanks to B&H Photo — Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro Coming For Review
2021-10-18 Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros Here, with M1 Max or M1Pro CPU: What You Need to Know
2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur 11.3 Reader Comment: Multiple Issues including Kernel Panics
2021-03-18 Kernel Panics with Adobe Photoshop on macOS Big Sur Continue
2021-01-22 Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 Continues to Kernel Panic macOS Catalina
2020
2020-12-29 Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 and Apple Destroy My Workflow Worse Than Any Problem I’ve ever Had
2020-10-05 Reader Comment: accountds Running Wild, Viewing Processes and Memory
2020-09-01 Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 Rainbow-Beachballs and Goes Zombie-Process, macOS Catalina Goes Non-Functional Requiring Hard Reboot
2020-07-15 Insolent Software Development: Adobe Creative Cloud Background Process Mess Chews up ~1GB of Memory when not in use
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 vs 10.15.2: Consistent Performance Losses in Photoshop CC 21.0.3 vs 21.0.2
2019
2019-12-18 2019 Mac Pro: Most likely Slower than 2019 iMac 5K Unless Gobs of Memory or GPU or CPU Cores are Used
2019-10-20 Reader Question: diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Purchase Options
2019-05-06 Update on Using an eGPU for Photoshop for Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2019-05-02 How Much is the GPU used for Raw File Conversion in Adobe Camera Raw?
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?
2019-05-01 Notes on Using an eGPU for Photoshop for Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2019-03-24 An eGPU is Useless for Photoshop and Lightroom Unless...
2019-01-11 My Days of 4 CPU Cores Are Over: Six Cores is Dubious for My Work, 8 CPU Cores Might Have to Be the New Minimum + Might Need 8TB SSD
2018
2018-04-28 OWC Thunderblade SSD Shipping in All Capacities up to 8TB — Ideal for Video Production and Capture. and/or Silent and High Capacity Photoshop Workflow
2018-01-26 CAUTION: Photoshop CC 2018 Latest Release Broken With Dual Displays (Unusable for Me)
2017
2017-11-27 Computers Are not Getting Faster in a Meaningful Way, GPU is Half-Baked Tech, Too Many Software Developers Suck
2017-10-18 Will the iMac Pro Be Worth The Cost?
2017-09-08 Will the iMac Pro Be Worth The Cost?
2017-07-16 Apple Bug? 2017 MacBook Pro Has Impaired Performance Using Apple Power Brick vs OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock + Why Does 800% CPU Usage Go Into Idle Clock Speed Mode?
2017-07-16 Adobe Lightroom Performance: Inefficiencies Could be Fixed
2017-07-09 TESTED with Photoshop: 2017 MacBook Pro
2017-07-08 TESTED with Photoshop: 2017 iMac 5K vs 2015 iMac 5K
2017-07-08 TESTED with Photoshop: 2017 iMac 5K SSD vs 2015 iMac 5K
2017-07-08 2017 iMac 5K: How System Memory Needed for Photoshop?
2017-05-08 The #1 Optimization for Photoshop Users: Speed up Save/Open by up to 20X
2017-05-08 OWC Accelsior Pro Q: Rock Solid and Blazingly Fast
2017-04-15 Lloyd at Photoshop World Apr 19/20/21
2017-04-13 OWC Accelsior Pro Q vs Accelsior: Real World Throughput
2017-04-11 Which is faster for RAW File Conversion, CPU or GPU?
2017-04-09 Caution on Photoshop CC 2017 Update: Missing/Black Windows and Palettes Require Quitting Photoshop
2017-03-27 OWC Accelsior Pro Q Speed vs Transfer Size
2017-03-25 TESTED: OWC Accelsior Pro Q PCIe SSD for 2010/2012 Mac Pro or any Thunderbolt Mac (via Helios Enclosure)
2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)
2017-01-10 Adobe Memory Usage, with no apps in use
2017-01-09 The GPU remains a Science Fair Project
2017-01-01 2016 MacBook Pro: Test Results vs 2015 MacBook Pro and 13" 2016 MacBook Pro + a Big Surprise
2017-01-01 2016 MacBook Pro: Test Results Updated to include 2015 MacBook Pro and 13-inch 2016 MacBook Pro
2016
2016-12-23 2016 MacBook Pro: Design by Dilettantes?
2016-12-21 OWC 40TB SSD Performance as Photoshop Scratch Drive
2016-12-19 Almost in 2018, Computers Are not Getting Faster in a Meaningful Way, GPU is Half-Baked Tech, Too Many Software Developers Suck
2016-12-07 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load — Update
2016-12-03 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Photoshop Filters
2016-12-01 Photoshop + Lightroom for a Year for $88
2016-11-22 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Photoshop Performance on Real World Job 'Create Size Variants'
2016-11-21 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Photoshop Performance
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
2016-09-03 Updated: Diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed
2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed
2016-05-17 When Software Crashes It is Immensely Frustrating: Why is Lightroom Crashing?
2016-05-09 Photoshop CC 2015 Now Uses all the CPU Cores for RAW-File Conversion
2015
2015-12-17 Why I Use Three NEC Displays on Mac Pro
2015-12-01 Photoshop CC 2015: 10-bit Per Channel (30-bit Color) Now Supported
2015-11-23 iMac 5K (Late 2015) with 64GB: the Key to Professional Usage
2015-11-21 iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Real World Photoshop Performance
2015-11-20 Late 2015 iMac 5K: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2015-11-20 Late 2015 iMac 5K: Photoshop Filters vs Mac Pro
2015-11-11 JPEG Batch Output in Photoshop and Lightroom: Rainbow-Beachball Hang Requiring Force Quit
2015-10-30 10-bit Graphics Support in OS X El Capitan: Adobe Confirms Support is Coming for Photoshop
2015-09-05 Use a 4K Display on MacBook Pro Retina: Vertical Orientation
2015-07-21 Photoshop CC 2014 Now Gets the CC 2015 Bugs
2015-06-19 Reviewed: 2015 Apple MacBook
2015-06-09 2015 MacBook Pro: Photoshop Performance
2015-05-17 $200 off the True 4K LG 31MU97
2015-02-25 Reader Question: Photoshop and Large Files — Best Way to Optimize
2015-01-28 Continuing Performance Issues in Apple OS X Yosemite, Particularly in Photoshop
2015-01-22 Apple Core Rot: More Views
2014
2014-12-27 TESTED: Kingston HyperX 128GB Data Traveler USB3 Thumb Drive
2014-12-24 TESTED: Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive — Fastest Yet!
2014-12-22 Suggested Boot/Master Volume Partitioning for Large SSD
2014-12-13 TESTED: OWC Aura SSD for 2013 Mac Pro with Photoshop
2014-12-05 OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: Stunning Performance in Thunderbay Mini: Throughput, Photoshop, Incompressible Data Too
2014-11-22 RAID: Performance vs Transfer Size
2014-11-21 OWC ThunderBay Mini Performance with Four SSDs
2014-11-18 OS X Yosemite Deletes Java / JDK, but Photoshop Needs It
2014-11-10 4K Video on 2010/2012 Mac Pro?
2014-11-06 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Create Multi-Resolution Image Series
2014-11-05 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: PhaseOne CaptureOne Pro RAW to JPEG
2014-11-04 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: RAW to JPEG
2014-11-01 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: XCode Build
2014-11-01 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Video Transcode 4K to 1080p
2014-11-01 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Photoshop Filters, Various
2014-10-31 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Photoshop
2014-10-31 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Integrity Checker (SHA1 Hash)
2014-10-10 Photoshop and CPU Core Usage
2014-04-19 Video Card or Photoshop Bug? (graphics drawing glitch)
2014-04-10 MPG Experience: a Month Using the 8-core 3.3 GHz 2013 Mac Pro
2014-03-30 Photoshop CC With Too Little Memory
2014-03-28 Tested in 2013 Mac Pro: 64GB vs 128GB Memory from OWC
2014-03-28 Saving and Opening Huge Photoshop Files *FAST* (OWC Mercury Helios 2 and Dual Accelsior PCIe SSD)
2014-03-10 OS X 10.9.2 Breaks Display Support with NEC Displays: Sleep, 90° Rotation Failure
2014-03-10 2013 Mac Pro: Photoshop CC Filter Crashes Appear to be Due to Apple Graphics Drivers
2014-03-08 Photoshop CC Sharpening Now 3X Slower But ONLY on the 2013 Mac Pro (unmaking the power of the Ring)
2014-03-07 2013 Mac Pro: Dual Displays Problematic
2014-02-04 MPG CPU Choice for 2013 Mac Pro + Order Status
2014-01-18 2013 Mac Pro: How Much Memory for Performance?
2014-01-17 Evolving Thoughts on 2013 Mac Pro GPU and CPU Choices
2014-01-17 Changing my Config for the 2013 Mac Pro
2014-01-17 2013 Mac Pro: Which Filters Benefit from the GPU in Photoshop CC?
2014-01-16 Two GPUs to Rule Them All, and in the Software Bind Them—Photoshop CC Now Sharpens 4X Faster
2014-01-16 Redo for Photoshop CC 14.2 (CC 14.2 Unstable on 2013 Mac Pro)
2014-01-16 2013 Mac Pro: Filters in Adobe Photoshop CC Tested
2014-01-14 Perfect Scalability to 12 Cores with Photo Zoom Pro
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?
2014-01-11 The Fastest Mac Pro for Photoshop
2014-01-03 Reviewed: Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina
2014-01-02 OS Mavericks 'App Nap' Kills Photoshop Performance
2014-01-02 Mac Pro Energy Savings: What is the Reality?
2013
2013-12-22 Making an Old Dog of a Laptop Run Like a Young Puppy, Make Lightroom or Photoshop Fly
2013-12-18 2013 Mac Pro: Which CPU and GPU?
2013-10-22 Notes on the Apple 2013 Mac Pro
2013-10-22 Memory for the 2013 Mac Pro
2013-10-02 Prices Drop a Little: Toshiba 3TB Hard Drives + OWC Mercury Accelsior PCie SSD
2013-07-29 Faster Workflow, Faster Lightroom, Faster Photoshop?
2013-07-13 Defrag or Upgrade to Faster/Larger? (Lightroom, Aperture, etc)
2013-07-07 Photoshop CS6 Performance with Pegasus J4 + OWC 6G SSD RAID
2013-07-05 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Recommended High Performance Config *with* Built-in Backup
2013-07-03 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Performance with Hard Drives
2013-07-02 Promise Pegasus J4: Internal View with Four 6G SSDs
2013-07-02 Promise Pegasus J4: Initializing Drives
2013-07-01 Promise Pegasus J4: Coming for Testing with SSD and HDD
2013-06-10 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Faster or Slower, Elegant but Klunky, Promise vs Reality, Video Oriented
2013-05-08 Adobe Creative Cloud: Reader Comments
2013-05-06 Adobe Clouds Software Choice (Adobe Creative Cloud Only Going Forward)
2013-04-06 Why is a MacBook Pro Retina Faster for Photography than a 12-Core Mac Pro?
2013-02-18 How to Speed Up Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
2013-01-19 Huge Photoshop Files Need a Fast Working Drive
2013-01-13 Apple Late 2012 3.4 GHz iMac: Photoshop CS6 Auto Align Layers
2013-01-10 Apple iMac: RAW File Conversion to TIF and JPEG vs Mac Pro, MBP
2013-01-09 Reviewed: Apple Late 2012 3.4 GHz iMac
2012
2012-12-11 Photoshop CS6 13.0.2 HiDPI Update: Faster Than Before by 13%
2012-12-11 Photoshop CS6 13.0.2 HiDPI Update — Retina Display Images Look Terrific
2012-12-10 My Favorite Mac Hardware
2012-12-03 New Apple 27" iMac — Buying Advice
2012-11-12 Which is Faster with Photoshop CS6? 12-Core or 6-Core Mac Pro?
2012-11-12 Speed Up Saving and Opening Photoshop CS6 Files
2012-11-06 MacMini: 16GB vs 8GB, Hard Drive vs SSD
2012-11-05 Reader Questions on the Mac Mini
2012-11-03 MacMini — Hard Drive vs SSD
2012-11-03 MacMini Quad-Core Performance vs MacBook Pro, Mac Pro
2012-10-24 Analysis of the new Mac Pro — Oops Nothing Announced
2012-07-25 Why I NEED 80GB or 96GB Memory in my Mac Pro: Photoshop CS6 Performance
2012-06-22 OWC 960GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD — Breakthrough SSD Capacity!
2012-06-21 Photoshop CS6: MacBook Pro Retina 2.7 GHz vs MacBook Pro 17" vs Mac Pro
2012-06-20 Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina
2012-06-20 Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina
2012-06-20 Photoshop CS6: MacBook Pro Retina 2.7 GHz vs MacBook Pro 17" 2.5 GHz
2012-06-17 MPG Pro Workstation SPECIAL OFFER (Souped-up Mac Pro), $250 OFF
2012-05-30 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB
2012-05-25 How Long to Convert 500 Nikon D800 14-bit NEF to JPEG?
2012-05-19 Dealing with Huge Photoshop Jobs — Actual Experience Today
2012-04-26 The Adobe Tax — CS6 Rent vs Upgrade
2012-04-20 OWC Mercury Accelsior and System Feel
2012-04-19 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6
2012-04-16 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6
2012-04-15 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Blistering-fast Drive Performance
2012-03-19 Memory Usage with Photoshop CS5
2012-01-22 More Memory With Big Photoshop Jobs = Big Speedup
2012-01-19 ULTIMATE Mac Pro — the MPG Pro Workstation Solution with OWC PCIe SSD (for Video and Database and Scientific and Huge Photoshop Users)
2011
2011-11-12 The Adobe Shake-Down
2011-11-01 Apple MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Quad-Core with 16GB Memory
2011-07-04 OWC 480GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD With Photoshop CS5 on 2011 Mac Pro
2011-06-18 Which Mac Pro for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.x?
2011-05-15 Photoshop CS5 DisallowFlateCompressedPSD Plugin Does Not Work With Some Layers
2011-05-13 Update on Photoshop CS5 DisallowFlateCompressedPSD.plugin
2011-05-08 How Fast a Drive Is Needed for Optimal Photoshop File-Save Speed?
2011-05-07 Save Big Photoshop Files 20X Faster!
2011-05-06 Save Big Photoshop Files 16X Faster! Adobe Releases DisallowFlateCompressedPSD.plugin for Photoshop CS5
2011-05-06 Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 Upgrade Kills All But One Software License
2011-05-04 Remote Access To Photoshop via iPhone, iPad
2011-04-21 OWC 6G 240GB SSD — WOW! Blazing Fast with Photoshop CS5 and File Copies
2011-04-13 Adobe Photoshop CS5 Performance with OWC 6G SSD on 2011 MacBook Pro
2011-03-09 Photoshop CS5 Tests Updated for 16GB Memory in MacBook Pro, 2.8GHz Mac Pro
2011-03-09 Photoshop CS5 Tests Updated for 16GB Memory in MacBook Pro, 2.8GHz Mac Pro
2011-03-03 Tests of 2011 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 4-Core vs 2010 2.66 GHz 2-core, Mac Pro
2011-02-15 Photoshop Performance: Beware of Memory Usage and Mac OS X Cache
2011-01-27 When More Is Less — 12 CPU Cores are Slower Than 6 CPU Cores with Photoshop
2011-01-03 Why I Always Have At Least 24GB memory (and why a 16GB iMac doesn’t cut it)
2010
2010-11-08 Photoshop — Permissions Will Not Let Photoshop Use the Volume for Scratch
2010-11-06 Case Study: Upgrading the 2010 MacBook Pro for Photoshop and Lightroom
2010-10-29 MacBook Air — Comparing to MacBook Pro 13"
2010-10-24 Mac Performance Guide - I figure you saved me at least $2500
2010-09-24 User Delighted with Photoshop CS5 Optimization
2010-09-10 Photoshop CS5 Scalability and Low-hanging Fruit
2010-09-02 When More is Less — 12 Cores and 48GB are Slower Than 6 Cores and 24GB with Photoshop CS5!
2010-09-02 2010 Mac Pro 12-core @ 3.33GHz — Reviewed!
2010-09-01 Whither 16-bit in Photoshop?
2010-08-12 OpenGL Sometimes Slower than Just Disabling it
2010-07-31 How Photoshop CS5 Saves Me Time (and how it wastes my time too)
2010-07-27 Apple’s SSD for Mac Pro (or iMac) — Not a Smart Move
2010-07-02 Why I disable OpenGL in Photoshop CS5
2010-06-30 Photoshop CS5 Crashing With OS X 10.6.4 with ATI Radeon 4870 and OpenGL on Mac Pro
2010-06-15 So-long Photoshop CS4
2010-05-14 MacBook Pro SSD single drive and RAID stripe vs hard drive
2010-05-12 Apple Mac Pro Nehalem: quad-core @ 3.33GHz or 8-core @ 2.93GHz?
2010-04-30 Optimizing Photoshop CS5 — 5X slower or 3X faster than CS4!
2010-04-14 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance MPG Pro Laptop
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