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2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura

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

2023-08-01 Example of Consulting Inquiry, How I Advise my Clients

2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: 'Vampire' GPU Usage — 1 to 25% of GPU used when Nothing is Happening

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

2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Sleep/Wakeup Causes Drastic Loss of Performance for both CPU and GPU

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: 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

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2023-09-30 Introduction to Sony FE 16-35/2.8 GM II

2023-09-29 Fujifilm GFX100 II: Overview

2023-09-29 Fujifilm GFX100 II: Press Release

2023-09-12 Fujifilm GFX100 II: Many Improvements Even for Still Photography

2023-09-12 NEW! Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II

2023-08-01 See in the Dark with the Canon MS-500— Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor counts individual photons

2023-07-28 Dell U3224KB 6K Display: Overview

2023-07-18 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Buggy Performance with GPU and CPU that Requires Reboot to Fix

2023-07-16 Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise —  Crashes Ordinary Video Cards

2023-06-18 Display Calibration over HDMI?

2023-06-09 Introduction to Nikon NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.2 S

2023-05-28 Introduction to Nikon NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8

2023-05-26 Introduction to Nikon NIKKOR Z 17-28mm f/2.8

2023-05-24 Nikon Z8: “true successor to the Nikon D850”?

2023-05-24 Introduction to Nikon Z8

Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra

World’s fastest desktop?.

1. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Overview
2. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Image Scaling, Topaz Gigapixel AI
3. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Recommended Models and Accessories

Apple 2022 Apple Studio M1 Ultra

Fastest Mac Yet?..

1. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Overview
2. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Recommended Models and Accessories
3. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Test Notes
4. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Memory Bandwidth
5. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SHA512 Hashing Speed Scalability
6. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Java Web Server Startup
7. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Maven Build Java App
8. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SSD Speed
9. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: IntegrityChecker Java, Verify
10. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
11. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Assemble Panorama
12. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
13. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Photoshop Filters
14. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
15. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Lightroom Import/Export
16. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R IV)
17. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
18. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Hasselblad X1D)
19. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (PhaseOne IQ4)
20. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX100, Fujifilm GFX50S)
21. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
22. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: CPU Core Scalability (Focus Stacking, Zerene Stacker)

Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max

World’s fastest laptop, beats nearly all desktops..

1. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: SSD Speed vs Transfer Size
2. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Image Scaling, Topaz Gigapixel AI
3. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Reliability
4. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Recommended Models and Accessories

Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max

Trouncing Intel-based laptops and desktops alike..

1. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Overview
2. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Memory Bandwidth
3. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: SHA512 Hashing Speed
4. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Maven Build Java App
5. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Java Web Server Startup
6. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: SSD Speed vs Transfer Size
7. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: IntegrityChecker Java, Verify
8. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
9. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Assemble Panorama
10. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
11. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Photoshop Filters
12. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
13. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Lightroom Import/Export
14. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R IV)
15. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
16. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (PhaseOne IQ4)
17. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX100)
18. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG, Iridient Developer
19. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
20. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Helicon Focus
21. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Recommended Models and Accessories

Apple iMac 5K (October 2020)

Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..

1. 2020 iMac 5K: Overview
2. 2020 iMac 5K: Memory Bandwidth
3. 2020 iMac 5K: SSD Speed vs Transfer Size
4. 2020 iMac 5K: IntegrityChecker Java, Verify
5. 2020 iMac 5K: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
6. 2020 iMac 5K: Assemble Panorama
7. 2020 iMac 5K: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
8. 2020 iMac 5K: Photoshop Filters
9. 2020 iMac 5K: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
10. 2020 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R IV)
11. 2020 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
12. 2020 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (PhaseOne IQ4)
13. 2020 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX100)
14. 2020 iMac 5K: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
15. 2020 iMac 5K: Helicon Focus
16. 2020 iMac 5K: Recommended Models and Accessories

Apple iMac 5K (March 2019)

Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..

1. 2019 iMac 5K: Memory Bandwidth
2. 2019 iMac 5K: SSD Speed vs Transfer Size
3. 2019 iMac 5K: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
4. 2019 iMac 5K: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
5. 2019 iMac 5K: Photoshop Filters
6. 2019 iMac 5K: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
7. 2019 iMac 5K: IntegrityChecker Verify
8. 2019 iMac 5K: Server Startup
9. 2019 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R III)
10. 2019 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
11. 2019 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Hasselblad X1D)
12. 2019 iMac 5K: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX)
13. 2019 iMac 5K: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
14. 2019 iMac 5K: Helicon Focus
15. 2019 iMac 5K: Recommended Models and Accessories

Apple Mac mini (November 2018)

True desktop-class performance..

1. 2018 Mac mini: Photoshop Filters
2. 2018 Mac mini: Photoshop Filters
3. 2018 Mac mini: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export
4. 2018 Mac mini: Buying Recommendations and Accessories

Apple Mac Pro (December 2019)

Workhorse desktop tower..

1. 2019 Mac Pro: Memory Bandwidth
2. OWC Accelsior 8M2 PCIe SSD
3. 2019 Mac Pro: IntegrityChecker Verify
4. 2019 Mac Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
5. 2019 Mac Pro: Photoshop Filters
6. 2019 Mac Pro: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
7. 2019 Mac Pro: Lightroom Import/Export
8. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R III)
9. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
10. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Canon 5DS R)
11. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Hasselblad X1D)
12. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX)
13. Phase One Capture One 20: Export to JPEG (Phase One IQ4)
14. 2019 Mac Pro: Focus Stacking with Helicon Focus, 28 X 45-Megapixel Nikon D850 TIF
15. 2019 Mac Pro: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, 28 X 45-Megapixel Nikon D850 TIF
16. 2019 Mac Pro: Image Scaling with Topaz Labs Gigapixel AI

Apple MacBook Pro Retina 16-inch (October 2019)

Desktop Class Performance, memory, SSD..

1. Configuring the 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch as as Desktop Replacement

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (July 2018)

Vastly improved performance over 2017 model, 6 CPU Cores..

1. 2018 MacBook Pro: Video Presentation: Configuring the 2018 MacBook Pro as as Desktop Replacement

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (June 2017)

Improved performance over 2016 model..

1. 2017 MacBook Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
2. 2017 MacBook Pro: Photoshop Filters

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (late 2016)

Touchbar, wide gamut, unrivalled SSD..

1. 2016 MacBook Pro: Overview
2. 2016 MacBook Pro: SSD Performance
3. 2016 MacBook Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
4. 2016 MacBook Pro: Photoshop Filters
5. 2016 MacBook Pro: Adobe Photoshop Create Size Variants
6. 2016 MacBook Pro: Adobe Lightroom Import RAW Files with 1:1 Previews
7. 2016 MacBook Pro: IntegrityChecker Verify
8. 2016 MacBook Pro: Grep
9. 2016 MacBook Pro: Display Color Gamut

Apple 12-Inch MacBook (2016)

An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..

1. 2016 Apple MacBook: Overview
2. 2016 Apple MacBook: SSD / Flash Drive Performance
3. 2016 Apple MacBook: CPU Utilization during Network File Copying
4. 2016 Apple MacBook: Photoshop Speed: Size Variants from 42-Megapixel Images
5. 2016 Apple MacBook: Photoshop Benchmarks
6. 2016 Apple MacBook: IntegrityChecker Verify Hashes

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (2015)

Evolving the platform with a hyper fast SSD..

1. Overview of 2015 Apple MacBook Pro Retina
2. Internal Flash Drive / SSD Performance vs Late 2013 MacBook Pro
3. Real World Shootout: IntegrityChecker Verify
4. Real World Shootout: diglloydHuge Photoshop Benchmark
5. Photoshop Speed: diglloydSpeed1 and diglloydMedium Photoshop Benchmarks
6. Search Speed (grep)
7. Photoshop Speed: Create Size Variants from 36-Megapixel Images

About Using Software RAID

Reasons for using software RAID, making the choice of RAID type, etc..

1. Why Use Software RAID?
2. Why Use RAID-5?
3. RAID-5 / RAID-4 Can be Partitioned to Suit
4. Why Use RAID-1+0?
5. Why Use RAID-1 Mirror?

Software RAID Performance with SoftRAID 5

High performance RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-1+0..

1. Single-Drive Performance with SoftRAID 5
2. RAID-0 Performance with SoftRAID 5
3. RAID-5 Performance with SoftRAID 5
4. SoftRAID RAID-4 / RAID-5 Performance with Heavy CPU load
5. RAID-1+0 Performance with SoftRAID 5

Software RAID with SoftRAID

Making software RAID volumes..

1. Software RAID Creation in SoftRAID
2. Walkthrough: creating a RAID-0 Stripe in SoftRAID
3. Software RAID-1 Mirror in SoftRAID
4. Software RAID-5 in SoftRAID
5. Software RAID 1+0 (Striped Mirrors) in SoftRAID

Thunderbolt peripherals

Reviews of Thunderbolt products..

1. OWC Drive Dock: Thunderbolt + USB3 Connectivity Using Dual Bare Hard Drives or SSDs
2. OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock for Port Expansion
3. OWC Envoy Pro EX Thunderbolt 3 SSD, Consumer Edition vs Video Edition

OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini

High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..

1. OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini Overview
2. Initializing with New Drives
3. Aggregate Throughput with 4 X 6G SSD
4. Sequential Speed vs Transfer Size with SSDs
5. Sequential Speed of Large Transfers with SSDs
6. RAID-5 vs RAID-4 with SSDs
7. Thunderbay Mini with SSDs as a Photoshop Scratch Disk
8. Thunderbay Mini with SSDs: Incompressible Data
9. CPU Usage for RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5
10. Real World Throughput for RAID-0 vs RAID-4 vs RAID-5
11. Outrageous Speed with 8 SSDs in Dual Thunderbay 4 Minis
12. Outrageous Speed with 8 SSDs in Dual Thunderbay 4 Minis: Speed vs Transfer Size

OWC 40TB SSD (in Thunderbay 4 Mini)

Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.

1. OWC 40TB SSD
2. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID Setup
3. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-0 and RAID-4 Sustained Transfer Performance
4. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5
5. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-0 Transfer Size Performance
6. OWC 40TB SSD: Photoshop Scratch Disk Performance

OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8

Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.

1. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Designing an OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8 Configuration for Still Photography or Videography

OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure

High performance with hard drives or SSDs..

1. OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure
2. OWC Thunderbay IV vs Thunderbay 4 (Thunderbolt vs Thunderbolt 2)
3. OWC Thunderbay 4 with Four OWC SSDs as RAID-0 Stripe
4. OWC Thunderbay 4 with Four OWC SSDs in RAID-5
5. RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID 1+0 Performance (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
6. RAID-0 with 4/3/2 Drives (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
7. RAID-5 with 4 / 3 Hard Drives (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
8. RAID-1 Mirror (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
9. Thunderbolt vs USB3 with 6G SSD (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)

Drobo 5D with Thunderbolt or USB3

RAID reliability in easy to configure 5-drive enclosure for full-size hard drives..

1. Drobo 5D Read/Write Performance

Apple 2017 iMac Pro

High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..

1. 2017 iMac Pro: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2. 2017 iMac Pro: RAW to JPEG
3. 2017 iMac Pro: Recommended Configurations
4. 2017 iMac Pro: Usage Observations and Conclusions

Apple 2017 iMac 5K

Even better than the 2015 model..

1. 2017 iMac 5K: Grep (Search)
2. 2017 iMac 5K: Photoshop Benchmarks, 64GB vs 8GB Memory

Apple 2015 iMac 5K

5K Display, blazingly fast SSD.

1. iMac 5K (Late 2015): Flash Drive (SSD)
2. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: 64GB Memory Supported
3. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Real World Photoshop Performance
4. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Integrity Checker Verify
5. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
6. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Photoshop Filters
7. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Convert 50-Megapixel RAW Files to JPEG (Adobe Camera Raw)
8. iMac 5K: Bridges the Gap to the Mac Pro
9. iMac 5K: Building a High-Performance Configuration

Apple 2014 iMac 5K

World’s first 5K Display.

1. iMac 5K vs Mac Pro: Photoshop Filters
2. iMac 5K vs Mac Pro: Phase One Capture One Pro Raw to High Quality JPEG
3. iMac 5K vs Mac Pro: Image Scale (PhotoZoom Pro)
4. iMac 5K vs Mac Pro: Unigine Valley (GPU test)
5. iMac 5K vs Mac Pro, Video Transcode 4K to 1080P
6. iMac 5K: Heat and Fan under Heavy CPU/GPU Usage

Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, GPUs, memory, flash..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: Choosing the CPU
2. 2013 Mac Pro: CPU Upgrades
3. 2013 Mac Pro: Choosing the GPU (Graphics)

2013 Mac Pro Performance

Performance of the 2013 Mac Pro..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: Capture One Pro: D800E Raw to JPEG

2013 Mac Pro GPU Benefits

GPU vs CPU Performance..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: GPU and Sharpening
2. 2013 Mac Pro: Photoshop CC Filters: CPU vs GPU
3. 2013 Mac Pro: Capture One Pro: CPU vs GPU on D800E Raw to JPEG
4. 2013 Mac Pro vs 2010 Mac Pro with Sapphire HD 7950 Video Card

Digital Camera Related

Camera cards and readers..

1. Lexar Professional 2000X 64GB SDXC Camera Storage Card (Tested in 3 Card Readers)
2. Lexar Professional 1000X 256GB SDXC Camera Storage Card
3. SanDisk Extreme Pro 512GBSDXC Camera Card

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

1. MacBook Pro Upgrades
2. Upgrading Mac Pro Memory
3. Upgrading Mac Pro Internal Drives

Strange but True: Photoshop CS5 Performance

What you should know about CS5 performance..

1. Fast Graphics Card and OpenGL Not So Great

Optimizing Video/DVD and Other Software

How to make your software run faster on the same hardware!.

1. Optimizing Adobe After Effects
2. Optimizing Handbrake for Faster Video Conversion

Choosing and Configuring a Mac

An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.

1. How to Choose a Mac
2. How to Select and Configure a Mac Pro
3. Buying a Mac at the Apple Store

Apple Mac Pro Westmere 4/6/8/12-Core (Aug 2010)

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, and is 2010 Mac Pro faster or better than 2009 model?.

1. Which Mac Pro CPU for Photography, Video, Sound?
2. Mac Pro Westmere Hits and Misses
3. Mac Pro Westmere Performance with Handbrake Video Encoding
4. Mac Pro Westmere Cinebench CPU and GPU

OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe RAID SSD

Ultra-fast solid state storage with hardware RAID for a Mac Pro in a PCIe slot..

1. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Conclusions

Solid State Drives, Various

SSDs and thumb drives..

1. Samsung 860 EVO, 2TB and 4TB SSDs
2. OWC Aura 960GB SSD Upgrade for MacBook Air or MacBook Pro Retina
3. Samsung 4TB 850 Evo SATA III SSD

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G Solid State Drives

Fast and durable, enterprise-grade solid state drives..

1. OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G 115GB SSD (25nm Flash)

Solid State Drives (SSD)

Choosing and using solid state drives..

1. Installing a solid state drive (SSD)

Apple Mac Mini (Late 2012)

Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..

1. Mac Mini: Dual Drives Are Better than 'Fusion'

Apple iMac 3.4 GHz (Late 2012)

Apple’s fastest Mac as of Jan 2013?.

1. Display Quality and is it a TV?

Apple 12-Inch MacBook (2015)

An iPad-sized laptop..

1. 2015 Apple MacBook: Overview
2. 2015 Apple MacBook: SSD vs 2015 MacBook Pro Retina
3. 2015 Apple MacBook: IntegrityChecker Verify Hashes
4. 2015 Apple MacBook: Photoshop Benchmarks
5. 2015 Apple MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Work

Apple MacBook Pro Quad-Core (February 2011)

A review of Apple’s first quad-core laptop..

1. Encoding Video with Handbrake

Mac Pro Memory

2009/2010 Mac Pro Memory — How Much for Performance?.

1. OWC 16GB Memory Modules Performance on 3.33Ghz 6-Core Mac Pro (2011 variant)
2. OWC 16GB Memory Modules Performance on 3.33Ghz 12-Core Mac Pro (2011 variant)

Drives and Expansion and Various

Reviews of various hardware and software..

1. FirmTek U3 USB3 Swappable 2.5-inch Drive Enclosure
2. 2008 Apple MacBook Pro unibody
3. 2009 Apple MacMini

Mac Pro Early 2009 (Nehalem)

Configuring and optimizing..

1. Introduction to Mac Pro Nehalem
2. Mac Pro Nehalem Tests: Introduction

ioSafe N2 Fireproof and Waterproof NAS

Network attached storage with fire and flood protection..

1. ioSafe 1513 5-to-15 Bay NAS

Blog posts

2023

2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura

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

2023-08-01 Example of Consulting Inquiry, How I Advise my Clients

2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: 'Vampire' GPU Usage — 1 to 25% of GPU used when Nothing is Happening

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

2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Sleep/Wakeup Causes Drastic Loss of Performance for both CPU and GPU

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: 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

2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Image Scaling with Topaz Gigapixel AI

2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: How Much Faster than 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max?

2023-01-02 Why Passkeys Will Be Simpler and More Secure Than Passwords

2022

2022-11-21 OWC Atlas FXR: Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C Card Reader for CFExpress Type B

2022-06-19 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Photoshop CC 2022: Filters — 2X CPU and GPU Cores and Memory = SLOWER

2022-06-15 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Up And Running

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

2022-03-10 Accessories and Storage for your Apple Mac Studio

2022-03-10 Apple Mac Studio Coming for Review

2022-03-09 AI: the Greatest Boon in History, or the End of Humanity and the tool of Tyrants? And what does a Rainbow Taste Like?

2022-01-18 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Here Soon for Testing

2021

2021-11-26 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Should be Here for Review in a Few Weeks

2021-11-23 OWC Announces miniStack STX World’s First Thunderbolt™ 4 Certified Storage and Hub Expansion Solution

2021-11-23 Computing Suggestions Aimed at Photographers and Videographers— Macs, Storage, Connectivity

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

2021-10-19 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

2021-10-08 OWC Announces Thunderbolt Dual DisplayPort 1.4 Adapter supporting up to dual 8K displays

2021-10-05 Years Later, macOS Big Sur leaves Major Disk I/O Performance Bug Unfixed

2021-06-28 B&H Photo Mega Deal Zone

2021-05-15 Reader Comment: MacBook Pro running OSX 10.12 has finally had the discrete GPU die... used this machine almost continuously for 10 years

2021-05-13 NewerTech Announces USB-C to HDMI And USB-C to DisplayPort Adapters with up to 8K Video

2021-04-27 MacOS Big Sur 11.3 Update: woe to professionals daring to use dual displays on a Mac

2021-04-20 Apple 24-Inch iMac with M1 CPU —  Home Run for Mainstream Usage, Iffy for Photographers

2021-02-19 Thunderbolt 4 Is Here, Delivering Thunderbolt Hub and Thunderbolt Dock Possibilities, Guaranteed Charging Power and Bandwidth, 8K Video

2021-01-22 Will Apple M1 Macs Become More Reliable than Intel-based Macs?

2021-01-16 OWC Acquires LumaForge, Forging into High-End Video Storage and Workflow

2020

2020-10-01 OWC Introduces OWC Mercury Pro LTO Tape Archiving Solution

2020-08-19 2020 iMac 5K Display Stream Compression (DSC) and Its Role in Making Dual 6K Display Support Possible

2020-08-07 Reader Comment: “Loss of confidence in Apple, what are our options?"

2020-08-06 Apple 2020 iMac 5K: Might it have Dual Thunderbolt 3 Busses when Configured with Radeon Pro 5700 or Radeon Pro 5700 XT GPU?

2020-07-30 TESTED: OWC Thunderbolt 3 10-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

2020-07-12 OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8: Eight Bays for Hard Drives, U.2 NVMe SSDs, Hard Drives or SATA SSDs — Now Shipping

2020-06-30 Update your PC or Older Mac with a FAST High Capacity SSD: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Now to 4TB Capacity

2020-06-29 OWC Envoy Express Thunderbolt 3 DIY Enclosure : World’s First Thunderbolt 3 Bus-Powered M.2 NVME SSD Solution

2020-05-11 OWC ThunderBay 8: Installing Hard Drives and SSDs, Plus Info and Specifications

2020-05-11 OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8: Eight Bays for Hard Drives, U.2 NVMe SSDs, Hard Drives or SATA SSDs

2020-04-26 OWC Doubles SSD Capacity for Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD, Thunderblade, Envoy Pro EX

2020-04-03 Popular Video Conferencing App 'Zoom' is Rife with Security Bugs and Maybe Infiltration by Chinese Communist Party

2020-02-10 Why Those Super Handy USB-C Ports on Displays and Video Cards SUCK

2020-01-29 Reader Comment: 2018 Mac mini with macOS Catalina Will Not Boot with eGPU

2020-01-21 Deep Sony Discounts for Students and Educators via B&H Photo EDU Advantage Discount Program

2020-01-10 GPU and Thunderbolt 3 Bandwidth: Why the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X Might be a Better Choice than the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II: Display Stream Compression Support

2020-01-05 2019 Mac Pro: Detailed Analysis of Phase One Capture One 20 Performance, GPU and CPU Utilization

2020-01-05 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Display Will Not Re-Sync with NEC PA302W after Coming Out of Sleep + Base Video Card vs Other Cards, Thunderbolt 3 Ports

2020-01-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: a Quick Look at How I Configured the Beast

2019

2019-12-20 PCIe SSD for Mac Pro and PCs from OWC: “MEET THE FASTEST OWC SSD EVER BUILT – THE ACCELSIOR 4M2”

2019-12-18 2019 Mac Pro: Most likely Slower than 2019 iMac 5K Unless Gobs of Memory or GPU or CPU Cores are Used

2019-12-18 Reader Question: Top-End 2018 MacBook Pro Screaming Deal?

2019-11-19 About that Dual 6K Display Support on the Apple 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch

2019-11-11 OWC Unleashes the All-New Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock for Extreme Workflows

2019-06-30 Displayport™ 2.0 Video Standard Enabling Support for Beyond-8k Resolutions

2019-06-21 Upgrading the 2018 Mac mini to 64GB Memory

2019-06-14 The 2019 iMac 5K that I Use is Already Discounted at B&H Photo

2019-05-25 An Interview with OWC’s Larry O'Conner on Development of the Aura Pro X2 SSD.

2019-05-07 Switched to macOS Mojave, out of Necessity with 2019 iMac 5K

2019-05-06 B&H Photo Introduces PayBoo Card, Refunds the Sales Tax for Many States — Game Changer for Retailers?

2019-05-06 Update on Using an eGPU for Photoshop for Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details

2019-05-02 Upgraded my 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Apple Flash Drive to the 2TB OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD

2019-05-02 Two-Minute Install of OWC 128GB Memory Kit for 2019 iMac 5K Works Great, Runs Big Jobs Effortlessly

2019-05-02 How Much are GPU and CPU Cores used by 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?

2019-05-01 Notes on Using an eGPU for Photoshop for Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details

2019-04-01 Reader Question: Radeon Pro Vega 48 GPU Upgrade for 2019 iMac 5K

2019-03-24 An eGPU is Useless for Photoshop and Lightroom Unless...

2019-03-18 Apple 2019 iMac 5K: Two Hits with One Big Miss

2019-02-01 2018 Mac mini: Problem with Video When Waking up From Sleep

2019-01-28 Understanding Thunderbolt 3 Bandwidth

2019-01-06 OWC Unveils the Mercury Helios FX 650 eGPU for Massive Gaming, VR and Professional Graphics Processing Power

2018

2018-12-11 Save Big On Apple Through Dec 22

2018-11-23 Top 40 B&H Photo Black Friday Deals

2018-11-21 B&H Photo Named One of America’s Best for Customer Service by Newsweek

2018-11-07 Need Memory for the 2018 Mac Mini? OWC Saves You Money

2018-10-30 New iPad Pro, MacBook Air, MacMini at B&H Photo

2018-09-04 Reader Comments: Configuring the 2018 MacBook Pro as as Desktop Replacement

2018-09-03 Video Presentation: Configuring the 2018 MacBook Pro as as Desktop Replacement

2018-08-27 Back to School: Solid Discounts on 2018 Macs

2018-08-14 2018 MacBook Pro Reviewed: Fastest Apple MacBook Pro Ever and By Far—It’s a Winner

2018-08-14 2018 MacBook Pro: Large Improvement vs 2017 MacBook Pro for Sustained GPU Performance

2018-07-30 Reader Comment: Which SSD or Storage for Video?

2018-07-28 Reader Comment: Which Mac for Video?

2018-07-17 B&H Photo Deals (Ending July 18)

2018-07-06 OWC Mercury Helios FX Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Chassis for PCIe Graphics Cards

2018-06-23 Laptop and/or Desktop for College Student?

2018-05-24 My Recommended iMac 5K for Photographers is now $400 Off

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

2018-01-25 Reader Comment: LaCie 2Big Thunderbolt 3 Storage Dock

2017

2017-12-29 iMac Pro in Stock at B&H Photo + Year-End Deals

2017-12-27 OWC Tears Down the 2017 iMac Pro, Announces Future Memory Upgrade Programs

2017-12-27 OWC Unboxing Videos for iMac Pro, Teardown to Follow Soon

2017-12-27 OWC Unboxing Videos for iMac Pro, Teardown to Follow Soon

2017-12-20 iMac Pro Models for Photographers

2017-12-14 iMac Pro: Pricing and Thoughts

2017-11-27 Computers Are not Getting Faster in a Meaningful Way, GPU is Half-Baked Tech, Too Many Software Developers Suck

2017-11-26 My Hand-Picked Cyber Monday Deals at B&H Photo

2017-11-23 Crazy Good Discounts on Apple MacBook Pro, Sony A7S II and A9, Drones, Phones

2017-11-21 Black Friday Sneak Preview Deals at OWC + Note on Big Fast Thunderbolt Storage

2017-11-18 Black Friday Deals at B&H Photo

2017-10-18 Will the iMac Pro Be Worth The Cost?

2017-10-06 Out of Space on your 2010-2015 MacBook Pro? SSD Prices Highly Attractive for Upgrading SSD Capacity

2017-09-17 Options for Connecting a Display with Mini DisplayPort or DisplayPort input to a Mac with Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C

2017-09-08 Will the iMac Pro Be Worth The Cost?

2017-09-04 Deals on Apple MacBook Pro: My Thoughts on Deeply Discounted 2016 Model vs 2017 Model

2017-08-18 Reader Question: Connecting a Dual-Link DVI-D Display to new Macs with Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C

2017-07-25 64GB Memory Kit for 2017 iMac 5K Works Great: Save $760 vs Apple

2017-07-24 Photo and Mac Computer Deals of Note

2017-07-22 2017 iMac 5K: Connecting a Display Done Easily with OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock + Reader Comments

2017-07-20 2016/2017 MacBook Pro or 2017 iMac 5K: Connecting a Display Done Easily with OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock

2017-07-19 Up to $500 off MacBook Pro At B&H Photo

2017-07-09 TESTED with Photoshop: 2017 MacBook Pro

2017-07-07 Save Big Bucks on 64GB Memory for 2017 iMac 5K

2017-06-30 2017 MacBook Pro: Personal HotSpot via iPhone Does not Work

2017-06-17 Comparing the 2017 iMac 5K to the iMac Pro

2017-06-16 Ordered Too Little Memory in 2017 iMac 4K? OWC Can Upgrade It Anyway

2017-06-15 Coming Soon for Review: 2017 iMac 5K

2017-06-15 Coming Soon for Review: 2017 MacBook Pro

2017-06-15 Deals on Apple Macs

2017-06-13 Apple Photos: Bad Idea + Downloading Images from iPhone/iPad/Other Devices using Apple Preview

2017-06-10 Dell UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD 8K Display is Shipping, Dec 2017 iMac Pro Already Behind the Curve

2017-06-07 Assessing the Dec 2017 Apple iMac Pro

2017-05-11 Mac Users Want NVIDIA GPUs, Apple Keeps Doing AMD—a Disconnect a Future Mac Pro Might Resolve

2017-05-10 B&H Photo Mother's Day Deals and More

2017-04-11 Which is faster for RAW File Conversion, CPU or GPU?

2017-04-07 Desired Features for 2018/2019 Mac Pro

2017-04-06 Apple’s Promised Mac Pro Powerhouse

2017-02-23 Will the next Apple Mac Pro (if any) be the Final Straw that Puts the Nail in the 'Pro' Coffin?

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

2016-12-28 Great Deal on 13" MacBook Pro

2016-12-26 Which 13-inch 2016 MacBook Pro? (or MacBook)

2016-12-26 Reader Comment: “iMac is a ticking bomb sealed inside a locked aluminum showcase”

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: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load

2016-12-03 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Photoshop Filters

2016-12-02 2016 MacBook Pro: Users Report Serious Graphics Glitches, Apple Investigating

2016-12-01 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Lightroom Import RAW Files

2016-12-01 2016 MacBook Pro: Returning it

2016-11-27 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: 10-Bit Color With External Display

2016-11-26 2016 MacBook Pro: Strange Rainbow Beachball Behaviors

2016-11-26 2016 MacBook Pro: Readers Considering 2015 MacBook Pro Instead

2016-11-23 B&H Photo Black Friday Deals Start Tonight at 21:01 Pacific Time (12:01 Eastern)

2016-11-22 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Photoshop Performance on Real World Job 'Create Size Variants'

2016-11-22 2016 MacBook Pro: Return It and Stick With 2013 Model?

2016-11-21 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Photoshop Performance

2016-11-19 2016 MacBook Pro: the SanDisk USB-C Card Reader Does not Work with my Lexar SDXC Cards

2016-11-19 2016 MacBook Pro: USB-C Might Offer Massive Runtime via External Batteries

2016-11-19 2016 MacBook Pro: Configuring the Touchbar Control Strip

2016-11-19 2016 MacBook Pro: Configuring the Touchbar Control Strip to Show All Function Keys

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: Why I Went With the 2TB SSD

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: Disappointing 8-Bit Video on Built-In Display

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: the Downsides to a Soldered-on SSD

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: Jaw-Dropping SSD Performance

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: System Integrity Protection (SIP) Disabled as Shipped by Apple

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: Enabling the Startup Chime... does not work

2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: the Touchbar Already Saving Me Time

2016-11-17 2016 MacBook Pro: Hangs on Restart, How to Force Reboot?

2016-11-17 2016 MacBook Pro: Arrived, Solving the Adapter Mess

2016-11-08 2016 MacBook Pro: Pros and Cons Abound

2016-11-02 2016 MacBook Pro: USB-C Might Offer Massive Runtime via External Batteries

2016-11-02 2016 MacBook Pro: Firewire 800 Compatibility

2016-11-02 Reader Comment: Apple Pro Division?

2016-11-02 2016 MacBook Pro: High Sales + Schiller on the Omission of an SD Slot

2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: SSD Speed

2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: What Options I Ordered, and Why

2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: the 16GB Memory Limit in the + CPU Speed vs Other Macs

2016-10-31 Why no Included Adapters with new Macbook Pro?

2016-10-30 The 'Killer' Feature of the 2016 MacBook Pro : Best Laptop Display Gamut Yet?

2016-10-29 OWC Teardown of 2016 MacBook Pro: SSD is Removable in the 13-inch non-touchbar model

2016-10-29 Compatibility Hardware for Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C Macs (USB, Thunderbolt, Camera Card Readers, etc)

2016-10-27 New Apple MacBook Pro (updated with comments, updated again with solutions)

2016-08-31 Viewing and Backing up Files from a Digital Camera on a Trip

2016-07-19 8K Video Card Support Now Available, though NOT for Apple

2016-07-12 Deals of the Week at B&H Photo, Selected

2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed

2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed

2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: CPU Utilization During Network File Copy

2016-05-07 NVIDIA Doubles GPU Speed, Halves Price with new GTX 1080: Good for New Macs?

2016-05-06 Graduation Approaches: Great Camera Deals

2016-05-02 B&H Photo Mother’s Day Specials

2016-04-20 B&H Photo NAB Specials End 21 April

2016-04-19 Apple Bumps Up the MacBook

2016-04-17 B&H Photo NAB Specials

2016-04-14 OWC Weekender Deals

2016-04-11 Late 2015 Apple iMac 5K: a Display Without Peer for Sheer Viewing Pleasure

2016-03-15 OWC Introduces 480GB and 1TB SSD Upgrades for 2013 and Later MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Retina

2016-03-14 3 iMac Deals + Building a High-Performance iMac

2016-03-01 Photography / Videography: Enhancing your iMac 5K (or Mac Pro)

2016-02-22 Reader Question: Mac Pro Upgrade or Replace?

2016-02-03 Newertech Headless Video Accelerator: Speeds Up Display, Video, Keyboard & Mouse Use Via Remote Access

2016-01-27 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

2016-01-25 Play 4K Videos on 4K TV: Load Onto USB3 Drive

2016-01-23 2TB OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD in MacBook Pro

2015

2015-12-27 End of the Year: 3 Days Left for Small Business to Write off that new Computer, Camera, etc

2015-12-24 Apple iMac 5K Purchased and Arrived: It’s a Keeper for Professional Use, which is Unprecedented

2015-12-20 $1799 ($500 off) for Excellent MacBook Pro 15", Recommended Peripherals for Storage, Backup

2015-12-17 Why I Use Three NEC Displays on Mac Pro

2015-12-15 2013 Mac Pro: Video Glitches Gone for 3 Days Now, After PRAM and SMC Reset

2015-12-13 Rebates on Macs, $100 Off Apple Watch

2015-12-12 2013 Mac Pro: Video Card Going Bad? Display Signal Problems with Crackling Sound, Reader Confirmation

2015-12-06 $500 Off a MacBook Pro Faster than the One I Use for My Professional Photography Field Trips

2015-12-04 Best Starter Camera Deal?

2015-12-04 The Weird Stuff that Sells for Gifts

2015-12-01 Photoshop CC 2015: 10-bit Per Channel (30-bit Color) Now Supported

2015-12-01 Isn’t it About Time that 4K Video is Available Directly on an iMac?

2015-11-30 Cyber Monday Deals at OWC and B&H Photo

2015-11-27 Black Friday Deals at OWC and B&H Photo

2015-11-24 Get a Gorgeous 5K Display—with a Free Computer Included!

2015-11-23 iMac 5K (Late 2015) with 64GB: the Key to Professional Usage

2015-11-23 Parents: Macs Under $1000, and Many More Mac Discounts

2015-11-20 OWC 64GB Memory for iMac 5K Now $675

2015-11-19 Late 2015 iMac 5K: Rocking Fast Flash Drive / SSD

2015-11-19 Wish Lists from Lloyd and Others

2015-11-17 iMac 5K: Top-Line Config Now in Stock

2015-11-16 New Discounts on MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro at B&H Photo

2015-11-15 Deals of Note at B&H Photo

2015-11-13 OWC Price Drop and Deals: 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 and TRIPP LITE USB3 Hub

2015-11-13 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

2015-11-12 iMac 5K: the Top-Line Config + Save On Memory by Getting the Memory Separately

2015-11-11 $150 off the Brand-New Apple iMac 5K

2015-10-26 My Workhorse Wide Gamut Display: NEC PA302W now only $1599

2015-10-13 New Apple iMacs Available for Pre-Order at B&H Photo + BUYING RECOMMENDATIONS

2015-09-17 Sony 4K Television: Wow!

2015-08-25 DEAL: MacBook Pro

2015-07-29 10 Apple Deals at B&H

2015-07-21 Photoshop CC 2014 Now Gets the CC 2015 Bugs

2015-06-22 The Best MacBook Pro for Photographers, Videographers, Power Users

2015-06-19 Reviewed: 2015 Apple MacBook

2015-06-18 Mini Review: 2015 Apple MacBook

2015-06-15 2015 MacBook Pro: On my Daily Real-World Task, it nearly matches a Souped-Up 2013 Mac Pro!

2015-06-14 2015 MacBook Pro: How Much Faster is it for Real World Daily Work?

2015-06-12 $230 off iPad Air

2015-06-11 Big Price Drop on my Workhorse Hardware-Calibrated Wide Gamut Pro-Grade Display: NEC PA302W

2015-06-10 Suggested Accessories for the MacBook Pro

2015-06-10 2015 MacBook Pro: Only the High-End Model supports 5120 X 2880 External Display

2015-06-09 2015 MacBook Pro: Search Speed

2015-06-09 2015 MacBook Pro: Photoshop Performance

2015-06-08 2015 MacBook Pro SSD Speed = Awesome in the Real World Too

2015-06-07 2015 MacBook Pro SSD Speed = Awesome

2015-06-07 Big Capacity for your Digital Camera: Lexar Professional 128GB Cards

2015-05-26 Some Deals at B&H Photo on Macs

2015-05-13 Savings on Various Macs (limited time)

2015-05-01 2013 Mac Pro 6-core for $3175

2015-05-01 OWC Announces Video Commercial Contest Starting May 1, Grand Prize Package Worth Over $12,000

2015-04-27 Apple Pro Video Updates: Endless Repeated Updates

2015-04-16 OWC Jupiter Ideal for Video Storage; NAS and/or SAN at 10 GBps, up to 512TB

2015-04-09 MacBook Pro: What Could be Coming Next?

2015-01-28 Continuing Performance Issues in Apple OS X Yosemite, Particularly in Photoshop

2015-01-13 Newfangled Popup Password Dialogs Defeat Password Managers

2015-01-07 OWC Announces the 'Viper', a Capacious Blazingly Fast SSD for High-End Video and Similar Demanding Uses

2014

2014-11-10 4K Video on 2010/2012 Mac Pro?

2014-11-05 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: PhaseOne CaptureOne Pro RAW to JPEG

2014-11-04 iMac 5K: Content Lacking

2014-11-04 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: More Benchmarks

2014-11-02 iMac 5K: Stressing the CPU and GPU

2014-11-02 OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog

2014-11-01 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Video Transcode 4K to 1080p

2014-10-20 OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog

2014-10-10 Upgrading the CPU in a 2009 or 2010 or 2013 Mac Pro Tower

2014-10-06 NEC to Offer 32-Inch Professional UltraHD 4K Display Soon

2014-07-29 Fast H.264 Video Compression on the MacBook Pro Beats the 2013 Mac Pro

2014-05-28 OWC Thunderbay as RAID-5 or RAID 1+0 Video Storage Solution

2014-05-26 How to Configure 2013 Mac Pro + many Mac Pro Configs in stock at B&H Photo

2014-05-25 Dell UP2414Q 4K UltraHD Display Review Updated

2014-05-24 4K UltraHD Display: Dell UP2414Q

2014-05-17 Safely Recording and Storing Video Footage: a Few Pointers

2014-05-14 Deducing GPU Usage for Final Cut Pro and Compressor by Watts

2014-05-14 Compressor: Needs some Bug Fixes

2014-05-13 Transcoding Panasonic GH4 UltraHD 4K Video to 1080p: Surprising Speed on 2013 Mac Pro with Final Cut Pro and QuickTime

2014-04-21 Phase One CaptureONE Pro to Fully Utilize All GPUs Available (e.g. 2013 Mac Pro)

2014-04-19 Video Card or Photoshop Bug? (graphics drawing glitch)

2014-04-14 Reader Question: Upgrading Video Card for Adobe Lightroom in 2009 Mac Pro

2014-03-29 Using Dual GPUs on the 2013 Mac Pro

2014-03-17 Attaching a Display to the CalDigit Thunderbolt Station

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)

2014-02-12 Sapphire HD 7950 Video Card Upgrade for 2009/2010/2012 Mac Pro

2014-02-12 2013 Mac Pro: Tests Updated for 4-core 3.7 GHz D300 GPU Model (base model)

2014-02-04 MPG CPU Choice for 2013 Mac Pro + Order Status

2014-01-30 2013 Mac Pro: 4-Core 3.7 GHz with D300 GPUs Coming For Testing

2014-01-28 OWC Install Videos for Late 2013 Mac Pro

2014-01-28 FOR SALE: the MPG 12-core 3.33 GHz Mac Pro with 80GB

2014-01-23 Tested: 2.7 GHz 12 Core 2013 Mac Pro with D700 GPUs

2014-01-23 D700 GPUs Strut Their Stuff: Unigine Valley 3D Rendering

2014-01-23 12 Core 2013 Mac Pro with D700 GPUs Tested Against Others

2014-01-21 12 Cores vs 12 Cores (and D700 GPUs)

2014-01-20 2013 Mac Pro: Lead Times Extend to March at Apple Store, but B&H has the 6-core in stock

2014-01-17 Evolving Thoughts on 2013 Mac Pro GPU and CPU Choices

2014-01-17 Configuring a Mac Pro Goes Well Beyond CPU and GPU Choice

2014-01-17 But... the Power of the GPU...

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)

2014-01-11 The Fastest Mac Pro for Photoshop

2014-01-10 OWC Thunderbolt Cables up to 30 Meters

2013

2013-12-27 Does Opting for the High-End GPUs on the 2013 Mac Pro Make Sense?

2013-12-19 2013 Mac Pro: What I ordered and Why

2013-12-18 2013 Mac Pro: Which CPU and GPU?

2013-10-22 Notes on the Apple 2013 Mac Pro

2013-10-07 Fast iMac or Mac Pro?

2013-09-04 NEC PA302W LED-Backlit 30-Inch Wide Gamut Display

2013-06-11 Reader Comment: OpenCL Support for the dual AMD GPUs

2013-06-11 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Video User Comment

2013-06-11 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Misses the Mark for Video Users

2013-06-10 WWDC: The New Apple Mac Pro

2013-06-10 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Reader Comments

2013-06-10 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Faster or Slower, Elegant but Klunky, Promise vs Reality, Video Oriented

2013-04-27 Screen Glitch: OS X 10.8.3 Issue?

2013-02-09 The iMac is a New Design, therefore the Mac Pro is Tool Old to Consider

2012

2012-11-30 New Apple 21.5" iMac — Memory is Difficult to Upgrade

2012-02-16 The iOS-ification of Mac OS X — Mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' — Feeling Like Prey Now

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

2011-12-20 Stocking Stuffers and Gifts

2011-06-24 Final Cut Pro X Usage of CPU Cores and Memory

2011-06-18 Which Mac Pro for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.x?

2011-04-06 How to Install More Than One Power Hungry Video Card in a Mac Pro

2011-03-22 Mac OS X 10.6.7 Update Fixes Black Screen Issue For NEC Displays

2011-03-19 Final Cut Pro Dropped Frames and Anti-Virus Software on Mac OS X

2011-02-25 The 2011 Quad-Core Apple MacBook Pro

2011-01-25 Update on Mac Pro Video Card Sleep Issue and Mini DisplayPort Cables — FIXED

2011-01-05 SPECIAL DEAL on a 2009 Mac Pro 2.93GHz as an MPG Pro Workstation

2010

2010-12-19 Update on Mac Pro Video Card Sleep Issue and DisplayPort Cables

2010-12-11 Update on Mac Pro Video Card Sleep Issue and DisplayPort Cables

2010-10-09 NEC posts tech note on Mac Pro video issues

2010-09-16 Update on Video Issues with Mac Pro

2010-09-10 Hot Corners to Work Around Black-screen Video Problem on Mac Pro

2010-09-09 Video Card Problems with 2010 Mac Pro

2010-09-02 How to Cut Handbrake Video Encoding Time by 40%!

2010-08-10 2010 Mac Pro 4/6-core Processors — Why There is a 16GB Memory Limit (maybe, maybe not)

2010-07-30 Mac Pro — Which Model for Photography, Video, Sound?

2010-07-28 Pricing and Valuing the iMac Against the Mac Pro

2010-06-30 Photoshop CS5 Crashing With OS X 10.6.4 with ATI Radeon 4870 and OpenGL on Mac Pro

2010-04-14 DIGLLOYD Mac Performance Guide releases powerful Mac Performance Enhancement and Testing Tools — diglloydTools 2.0