World’s fastest desktop?.
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..
Workhorse desktop tower..
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