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

2023-06-05 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra/Max and Apple 2023 Mac Studio M2 Ultra/Max

2023-02-16 REVIEWED: 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max

2022-11-10 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Tends to Kernel Panic Machines Using SoftRAID —  Apple XProtect Bug?

2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Won’t Sleep Display

2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Shutown/Reboot, Both Admin Accounts Kaput

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

2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

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2022-01-26 TESTED: Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max — a Stunning Performer That Crushes Intel-Based Macs

2022-01-10 REVIEWED: 2020 iMac 5K vs 2019 iMac 5K vs 2019 Mac Pro

2021-10-20 Bang for the Buck: $2899 for a Loaded iMac 5K with Gorgeous Display, or $5K for an Apple MacBook Pro M1X?

2021-10-19 Apple 16" M1X MacBook Pro: Can it Beat the 2019 iMac 5K and the 2019 Mac Pro 28-Core for Most Tasks?

2020-02-02 28-Core Apple Mac Pro with AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

2020-01-29 Why I Returned the 16-Core 2019 Mac Pro... Wanted 28 Cores!

2020-01-27 What is the Maximum Performance Gain for 12 vs 16 vs 24 vs 28 CPU Cores for the Apple Mac Pro? (Intel Xeon W-3245 etc)

2020-01-27 Why I am RETURNING the 2019 Mac Pro

2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups

2020-01-10 Phase One Capture One 20: Negligible CPU Core Utilization while Importing Images, Regenerating Previews + Inscrutable GPU Usage

2020-01-10 Optimizing Zerene Stacker on High Core-Count Macs Like the 16-Core 2019 Mac Pro

2020-01-09 2019 Mac Pro vs 2019 iMac 5K: RAW File Conversion Speed

2020-01-09 2019 Mac Pro vs 2019 iMac 5K: Focus Stacking Speed

2020-01-09 AMD Radeon Pro 580X in 2019 Mac Pro Badly Lags the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 in the 2019 iMac 5K

2020-01-09 Adobe Lightroom Users Rejoice—Your Ship Has Arrived with the 2019 Mac Pro!

Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra

World’s fastest desktop?.

  1. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Testing Notes
  2. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Memory Bandwidth
  3. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Per CPU Performance Variation
  4. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: SHA512 Hashing Speed
  5. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: IntegrityChecker Java, Verify
  6. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Maven Build Java App
  7. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
  8. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise
  9. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Assemble Panorama
  10. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
  11. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Photoshop Filters
  12. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
  13. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Lightroom Import/Export
  14. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R IV)
  15. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
  16. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (PhaseOne IQ4)
  17. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX100)
  18. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
  19. 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Image Scaling, Topaz Gigapixel AI

Apple 2022 Apple Studio M1 Ultra

Fastest Mac Yet?..

  1. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Memory Bandwidth
  2. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SHA512 Hashing Speed Scalability
  3. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Java Web Server Startup
  4. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Maven Build Java App
  5. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SSD Speed
  6. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: IntegrityChecker Java, Verify
  7. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
  8. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Assemble Panorama
  9. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
  10. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Photoshop Filters
  11. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
  12. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Lightroom Import/Export
  13. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R IV)
  14. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
  15. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Hasselblad X1D)
  16. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (PhaseOne IQ4)
  17. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX100, Fujifilm GFX50S)
  18. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
  19. 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: Memory Bandwidth
  2. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: SHA512 Hashing Speed
  3. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Maven Build Java App
  4. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: SSD Speed vs Transfer Size
  5. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: IntegrityChecker Java, Verify
  6. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
  7. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Assemble Panorama
  8. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
  9. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Photoshop Filters
  10. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
  11. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Lightroom Import/Export
  12. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R IV)
  13. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
  14. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (PhaseOne IQ4)
  15. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX100)
  16. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
  17. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Image Scaling, Topaz Gigapixel AI

Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max

Trouncing Intel-based laptops and desktops alike..

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

Apple iMac 5K (October 2020)

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

  1. 2020 iMac 5K: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
  2. 2020 iMac 5K: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks

Apple Mac Pro (December 2019)

Workhorse desktop tower..

  1. 2019 Mac Pro: Memory Bandwidth
  2. 2019 Mac Pro: OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD
  3. OWC Accelsior 8M2 PCIe SSD
  4. 2019 Mac Pro: IntegrityChecker Verify
  5. 2019 Mac Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks
  6. 2019 Mac Pro: Photoshop Filters
  7. 2019 Mac Pro: Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
  8. 2019 Mac Pro: Lightroom Import/Export
  9. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Sony A7R III)
  10. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Nikon D850)
  11. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Canon 5DS R)
  12. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Hasselblad X1D)
  13. 2019 Mac Pro: Convert RAW Files to JPEG With Adobe Camera Raw (Fujifilm GFX)
  14. Phase One Capture One 20: Export to JPEG (Phase One IQ4)
  15. 2019 Mac Pro: Focus Stacking with Helicon Focus, 28 X 45-Megapixel Nikon D850 TIF
  16. 2019 Mac Pro: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, 28 X 45-Megapixel Nikon D850 TIF
  17. 2019 Mac Pro: Image Scaling with Topaz Labs Gigapixel AI

Blog posts

2023

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

2023-06-05 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra/Max and Apple 2023 Mac Studio M2 Ultra/Max

2023-02-16 REVIEWED: 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max

2022

2022-11-10 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Tends to Kernel Panic Machines Using SoftRAID —  Apple XProtect Bug?

2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Won’t Sleep Display

2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Shutown/Reboot, Both Admin Accounts Kaput

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

2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022-03-02 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Reboot, Repudiating my Login Password

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

2022-01-10 REVIEWED: 2020 iMac 5K vs 2019 iMac 5K vs 2019 Mac Pro

2022-01-01 SHA-512 Hashing Speed in Java: 2019 Mac Pro, 2019 iMac 5K, 2020 iMac 5K, 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max

2021

2021-12-27 MacOS Big Sur Dec 14 Update: Reboots 2019 Mac Pro Continually

2021-10-20 AppleCare Now Extends Beyond 3 Years, and Two Ways to Do So

2021-10-04 Checking for Data Corruption after macOS Hoses Your System

2021-10-04 macOS Big Sur Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Kernel Panic, Repudiating my Login Password

2021-04-04 Display Connections for HDMI/DisplayPort Displays on 2019 Mac Pro or Other Macs

2021-03-01 “Upgraded” to macOS Big Sur on 2019 Mac Pro — No Workflow Benefits, All Downside So Far

2020

2020-07-02 TESTED: 16TB OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD

2020-05-18 2019 Mac Pro and Kernel Panics with PCIe Cards

2020-01-29 Why I Returned the 16-Core 2019 Mac Pro... Wanted 28 Cores!

2020-01-18 Caution for Those Working with Color-Calibrated Displays: macOS Catalina Resets Display Profile

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

2020-01-07 Eye-Burning Bug in macOS Catalina on 2019 Mac Pro: LG 5K Display Resets to Maximum Brightness Every Reboot

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

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

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

2020-01-05 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Apple’s Intel Xeon W CPUs Have a Lot More Cache than Intel Specifications

2020-01-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: MUCH Slower CPU Cores than 2019 iMac 5K, but Lots More of 'em

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

2020-01-03 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: OWC 32GB Modules Show 1/3 Higher Bandwidth than Apple 8GB Modules

2020-01-02 2019 Mac Pro: Hardware Elegance, macOS Crapalina Belongs in the Toilet

2020-01-01 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD: Fasted SSD MPG has ever Tested, by 2X

2020-01-01 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Not All Memory is the Same Speed, Mixing Sizes Not so Good

2019

2019-12-31 Geeking Out on New Year’s Eve, with 🍾Bubbles

2019-12-26 On the Way for Testing: 2019 Mac Pro 16-core / 48GB / 4TB

2019-12-20 OWC Delivers up to 512GB in 2017 iMac Pro (prior limit was 256GB)

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

2019-12-19 2019 Mac Pro: the 8/12/16 Core CPUs Can Use 1TB Memory (24/28 Cores Not required)

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 2019 Mac Pro: Tips for Upgrading Memory

2019-12-18 2019 Mac Pro: Apple Reference Articles and Specifications

2019-12-18 HUGE Savings on Mac Pro Memory at OWC

2019-12-13 The Good Stuff for Your 2019 Mac Pro

2019-12-10 Apple Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR Now Available for Pre-Order at B&H Photo

2019-06-28 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Made in China

2019-06-27 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Everything I Want... but Truly High-End and Unaffordable for Most

2017

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

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