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Is your Mac sleepy?
8 Mar 2006I saw a hint today on macosxhints.com regarding the ability to put your Mac to sleep using the Apple remote. This little cool feature works with Macs with infrared sensors (with FrontRow preloaded basically) I immediately thought, “That’s a cool feature”, but then I read on: Note that if you happen to use a remote-equipped [...]
macbook pro cinebench results
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
21 Feb 2006got a request to do this over at macnn forums. thought i’d share the results with you here update: just got some perspective on these results: Athlon FX-60 (2.8GHz): 692 Intel Pentium 955 EE (3.46GHz): 666 Athlon64 X2-4800+ (2.4GHz): 638 Intel Pentium 840D (3.2GHz): 532 MacBook Pro (2.0GHz): 563 Technorati Tags: macbookpro
macbook pro xbench results
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
21 Feb 2006i just ran a quick xbench on the macbook pro, here are the results. score: 63.56 update: per user comment, i disabled quartz beam sync and reran the test. results are here. new score: 80.16 It should be noted that XBench is not optimized for the intel platform and these numbers should be looked at [...]
macbook pro hath arrived
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
21 Feb 2006yup, to my surprise it arrived this morning. i have posted some initial pictures over at flickr. check em out: very good initial impressions. of course, it smokes everything in my house (all G4s). i tried running coconutbattery to get some indication of the max battery capacity/life, but the app crashed. darn. look for much [...]
ready for macbook pro/intel switch?
In: apple|macbookpro|macintosh
20 Feb 2006am i really ready to switch my mac experience to the intel platform? i compiled a list of my most used applications on osx, and determined whether they were universal binary or rosetta emulation. out of my 24 most used applications, 14 were universal binaries and 10 were rosetta emulation. only one i could confirm [...]
