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Best Mac for video editing. Video editing consumes lots of processing power, RAM, and storage (surprising, isn’t it?). It also needs a big screen, because video editing apps are probably the most complex ones, with hundreds of buttons, tools, and sliders. 16 GB of RAM is a minimum. Quad-core Intel i7 processor is a minimum.
ARCHIVED QUICK TAKES January 24th, 2012 - It's a shame the latest Macs don't have at least one USB 3.0 port. The 'thumb' drive clocked 242MB/s READ and 117MB/s WRITE when we plugged it into the CalDigit USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 we had installed in a 'late 2011' MacBook Pro. Plug it into a USB 2.0 port and the speeds drop to 30MB/s. See what we are missing? December 24th, 2011 - We're busy working on a 'screaming dual bay notebook enclosure' article. We're using 6Gb/s SSDs and fast 6Gb/s host adapters to squeeze out maximum speed.
One discovery is that sync SSDs can do Finder Duplicate of a larger folder of files 80% faster than lower priced async SSDs. We'll give you details soon. November 30th, 2011 - Seagate is shipping the second generation Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive. We will soon post a shootout comparing it to the first generation Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive as well as to 'normal' HDDs and 6Gb/s SSDs. If you can't wait, you can order yours now from. November 19th, 2011 - A reviewer commented on the jerky/sluggish graphics of the Kindle Fire. I did a little research.
Turns out the Kindle Fire uses the same graphics processor (PowerVR SGX540) as the new Droid Razr and new Galaxy Nexus smart phones. That shows the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 'smoking' the Razr and Galaxy. If the Fire had been included, it would have been smoked as well. October 24th, 2011 - Apple 'speed bumped' the from 2.3GHz to 2.5GHz Core i7 CPU, went from a Radeon HD 6750 to 6770 GPU, and added a 7200rpm 750GB HDD option. September 19th, 2011 - The is taking orders on the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt (dual HDD version). To get the fastest data transfer speed requires the dual 3G SSD version which should appear sometime in October.
NOTE: LaCie lists the SSD version's read speed at 480MB/s and write speed at 245MB/s. Observed two LBDs daisy-chained clocking 827MB/s read and 353MB/s write. In both cases the write speed is much lower than read speed whereas the enclosure's write speeds are faster than the read speeds.
Meanwhile, you can enter a contest to Thunderbolt enclosure. September 16th, 2011 - Though it is not mentioned in the description, the fixes the 6G SSD 'slow and erratic' read behavior we observed in the 2011 17' MacBook Pro. We have an OWC 6G/s SSD running fast and stable inside our 17' 2011 MacBook Pro. Our tests show data transfers twice as fast as the Apple (Toshiba) factory 3G/s SSD.
September 14th, 2011 - After the on the 2011 MacBook Air, we repeated our Target Disk Mode tests. The large document Finder copy measured 109MB/s. The QuickBench large block transfer test measured 117MB/s READ and 67MB/s WRITE. That's a 68% - 89% improvement over our July Target Disk Mode results, but still much slower than the full speed of the internal flash storage of the MacBook Air (270MB/s).
August 26th, 2011 - Razer unveiled the 'first true gaming laptop,' the. It features a 2.8GHz Core i7 2640M processor and GeForce GT 555M GPU. I'd like to have that GPU in the top MacBook Pro and iMac.
August 19th, 2011 - Today HighPoint introduced, a 4-lane, 4-port USB 3.0 host adapter. It supports various RAID modes and offers throughput of up to 2000MB/s - or twice that of Thunderbolt. Hmm, I feel a shootout coming on. July 4th, 2011 - Thunderbolt Target Disk mode runs at one-tenth the speed of Thunderbolt enclosure in our testing. External enclosures use OS X with multi-threading and multi-block DMA transfers. Target mode uses EFI - no multi-threading, etc. June 25, 2011 - MacWorld UK sampled.
Using Kona System Test, they observed 836MB/s read and 353MB/s write on a 2011 MacBook Pro's Thunderbolt port. (Correction: According to, it took two LBD Thunderbolt enclosures with four SSDs total to achieve 800+MB/s.) June 22nd, 2011 - ALERT: See the with Final Cut Pro X. June 22nd, 2011 - Today Hitachi GST announced the for iPads and iPhones. May 16th, 2011 - THE SCOOP: Download explaining how it utilizes memory, CPU cores, and OpenCL GPUs as never before. April 26th, 2011 - has a nice leather sleeve that provides added protection to the iPad 2 even with the Smart Cover still attached. April 20th, 2011 - FirmTek announced a for MacBook Pro 17' (380MB/s).
If you have a 2011 MacBook Pro, you can boot OS X from the drives attached to it. April 12th, 2011 - Adobe is taking preorders for which now supports HTML5. The Web Premium Suite supposedly enables you to create apps for the iPad and iPhone. March 1st, 2011 - NEWS FLASH: It's been confirmed that the internal SATA port on the 2011 MacBook Pro is 6 gigabit. One reader installed a Crucial C300 and got 362MB/s average read speed for large sequential transfers.
We're looking forward to testing the Intel 6Gb/s 510 SSD and OCZ 6Gb/s Vertex 3 which should be even faster. February 23rd, 2011 - OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCIe based SSD - 617MB/s READ and 619MB/s WRITE on our Mac Pro running Windows 7. February 3rd, 2011 - Our testing confirmed that Verizon iPhone has wider 3G coverage, but AT&T iPhone has faster 3G - IF you have a strong connection. January 5th, 2011 - Verizon's Pantech UML290 4G USB modem works on OS X without drivers. We measured 20Mbps down and 8MB/s up. The LG VL600 4G USB modem has no Mac drivers yet, though we got it to work under Windows using Parallels 6 for Mac. November 19th, 2010 - Why is 3Gb/s SATA faster than 5Gb/s USB 3.0?
And what can be done to 'fix' USB 3.0 adapters to go faster? Read the ' by Chris Karr of Western Digital. November 17th, 2010 - NEWS UPDATE: The has twice the VRAM at twice the cost of the kit. But is it twice as fast? Stay tuned for the answer. 2010 November 16th, 2010 - NVIDIA announced the today.
Apparently the drivers are included in OS X 10.6.5. November 13th, 2010 - kit status became 'Ships: Within 24hrs' on November 12th, 2010, on. November 11th, 2010 - NEWS FLASH: The OS X 10.6.5 ATI driver fixes the WoW problem where the Radeon 5770 and 5870 can only select 'FAIR' quality. Now it lets you select all quality settings. October 28th, 2010 - We found a clever USB powered keyboard illuminator for the 2010 MacBook Air's keyboard and standard Apple keyboard - both of which lack backlighting. It's pricer than some LED flex lamps, but the red LEDs are less harsh than the white LEDs some flex lamps use. And the 10 LEDs are spread out on a tube so the light distributes better to the whole keyboard.
Is offering BF readers a $500 discount on the Stardom 8-bay SAS enclosure. Enter ' BFRAID ' coupon code. They also have 20% off on the. October 11th, 2010 - Frustrated by the short length of the Apple LED Cinema display Mini DisplayPort and USB cables? I found several sources. My favorite is the.
I'm using two 15 footers in our lab to connect two 27' LED Cinemas to the 2010 Mac Pro. October 5th, 2010 - For less that the price of one 256G SSD, you can buy two 10K 600G Velociraptor HDDs. If you stripe them (RAID 0), you get the same sustained transfer speed as the SSD.
But, alas, the SSD can process 14 times as many small random transfer requests per second. Then again, considering you are getting 5 times the storage of the SSD and 3 times the transactions per second of the fastest 7K HDD, it's is an interesting option for a boot volume. October 2nd, 2010 - Do three displays on a Radeon 5870 result in a performance hit?
Now we have two 27' LED (2560x1440) and one 30' Cinema (2560x1600) running on one Radeon HD 5870. Motion RAM Preview runs 5% slower.
If you enable Anti-Aliasing in X-Plane at 2560x1440, it slows by 6% going from one to three hi-rez displays. Try it at 2560x1600 and the screen goes white. Simple solution for gamers: use lower rez or unplug one of the three displays. September 28th, 2010 - In 2011, Apple's iPad will face three competing pads. The latest to be announced is the Blackberry PlayBook.
That you should check out. September 18th, 2010 - USB 3.0 Shocker: The AV Drive connected to their USB 3.0 PCIe host adapter is producing 150MB/s transfer speeds for a single 7K HDD. Also surprising is the FireWire 800 write speed of 85MB/s which beats any other FW800 enclosure we have tested - none of which attained more than 60MB/s. September 8th, 2010 (Updated) - The Radeon 5770 and 5870 support three displays on all models of Mac Pro from 2006-2010. Through experimentation and advice from 'Pegasusrjf,' I got three displays to work simultaneously with this setup: 1. 23' Cinema or 30' Cinema on the DVI port 2.
23' Cinema with MDP to dual-link DVI adapter. to first MDP port 3. 24' LED Cinema with direct MDP connection to second MDP port On some occasions after powering up, only one display would light up. But when I would pull out one of the Mini DisplayPort cables, then two would light up. Plug it back in and now three were lit. So there is still some 'ooga booga' with multi-display support.
(. The 'plain' DVI to MDP adapter is adequate if only two displays are connected. For more on this issue, see Apple Tech Note.) August 31st, 2010 - FirmTek announced a with two eSATA ports, Port Multiplier support, and S.M.A.R.T. August 6th, 2010 - Wish USB 3.0 drives worked on the Mac?
Wish no more. Will soon ship a USB 3.0 drive that works on the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro using a special host adapter. Stay tuned for a full report. July 27th, 2010 - The iMac received some.
My favorite upgrade is the GPU. You get a Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory in the top model. See our at the native 2560x1440.
July 11th, 2010 - declares the WD RE4 2TB (WDGWD2003FYYS) to be the fastest 7K SATA drive tested to date. We recently re-tested the WD Caviar Black 2TB drive (WD2001FASS) and found it to be equally fast. May 12th, 2010 - Google and Verizon are reportedly working on an iPad-like product. Having played with various Android based smart phones, it would not be hard to create a competing product to the iPad.
April 12th, 2010 - Wish your iPad had a camera? There is an app called 'Camera for iPad' that turns your iPhone into a Bluetooth slave camera controlled by your iPad. February 21st, 2010 - Apple Store USA lists the ' But I assure you it also works on the Mac Pro 2006-2007 if you run Snow Leopard. January 5th, 2010 - Google's (Android) phone has a few feature advantages over the iPhone 3GS such slightly larger screen with higher resolution (480x800), faster processor (1GHz vs 600MHz), multi-tasking, and 5MP camera with LED flash.
November 22nd, 2009 - We recommend ',' an iPhone app which scans barcode and then looks up prices at various resellers. We scanned the Crucial SSD M225 256G box. RedLaser found 31 sources ranging from $667 to $881. BTW, and had the lowest price. August 12th, 2009 - Crucial now has a 256G SSD (M225) with an MSRP of $599. That beats the generic OCZ Vertex by $100 and the Mac Edition by almost $200.
We tested a sample which matches the impressive speed of the. We plan to use it for 'long term testing' in our 17' Unibody MacBook Pro. Has it listed at $588. July 27th, 2009 - Western Digital announced a one terabyte notebook drive but initially it will only be available in a USB 2.0 enclosure. Also be aware that it has a low rotation speed (5200rpm) and is 12.5mm thick (which means it may NOT fit inside your MacBook or MacBook Pro). April 2nd, 2009 (updated) - Caution on GeForce 8800 GT in Nehalem: We've been trying all the different graphics cards in the Nehalem Mac Pro 8-core 2.93.
I was puzzled when I installed the GeForce 8800 GT. The Core Image apps ran really great - better than ever. However, when shifted over to 3D games, I received a shock. It ran painfully slow. One third the speed of the GeForce 120 GT!
We received a pre-release of a 'repaired' driver that restores the GeForce 8800 GT to its former glory. See the results on our page. March 26th, 2009 - Silverado Systems is offering to Bare Feats readers who buy a Nehalem Mac Pro. March 9th, 2009 - Diglloyd posted.
Lloyd Chambers compares it to the 2.8GHz 15' MacBook Pro and 2.8GHz Mac Pro including some unique Photoshop benchmarks. March 4th, 2009 - MacTech compared. Find out which one does a better job creating a virtual PC in the Intel Mac. March 4th, 2009 - is looking for writers. If you are an avid gamer and like to write about it, this just might be your cup of tea. March 3rd, 2009 - Radeon 4870 appears to be available soon in kit form.
We were hoping it to be true when we saw the 4870 was a CTO option for the new 'Nehalem' Mac Pro. A reader sent that shows it 'currently unavailable' on the Apple USA store but the Apple Canada store shows it available for ordering at. It is stated to be compatible with the 'early 2008' and 'early 2009' Mac Pro and requires OS X 10.5.7. February 27th, 2009 - AMUG posted an excellent review of the SAS/SATA RAID PCIe adapter with up to 16 drives. January 5th, 2009 - Visit Wiebetech's website to read about the four-bay quad-interface enclosure.
Then enter their to win one. December 31st, 2008 - Torrey Loomis of Silverado Systems posted some regarding the next generation Mac Pro that is likely to be announced in January 2009. December 17th, 2008 (updated) - Leopard 10.5.6 does some graphics faster. The first thing we tried was the Motion RAM Preview of the HD 'Blocks Detail' template which rendered so slow on the GeForce under 10.5.5. After the update, it renders 38% faster on the MacBook Pro's GeForce 9600M GT and 48% faster on the Mac Pro's GeForce 8800 GT.
As for 3D games, we tested CoD4, ET:QW, Halo, WoW, and Prey on the Mac Pro 3.2 using two different graphics cards. As for the MacBook Pro 2.8, the only game that ran significantly faster was CoD4 (by 15%). December 10th, 2008 - is the title of an article by ComputerWorld.
December 3rd, 2008 (Update) - The at Silverado Systems is arguably the 'world's fastest Mac' with 32GB of 800MHz RAM, triple Intel X25-M SSD boot volume, Velociraptor 10K data volume, Quadro FX 5600 GPU, Blu-ray drive, and SuperDrive. During December, get a special discount using coupon code 'SSD01DISC.' November 29th, 2008 - Lloyd Chambers has launched the for Professional Photographers and Performance Addicts.
November 22nd, 2008 (Updated) - OWC is out of stock on the '. It is a full length card with a double-wide heatsink (quiet fan), but lacks a CrossFire connector and only works on 'early 2008' Mac Pros. The (still in stock at OWC) works on all models of Mac Pro, has a single-wide heatsink, and does have a CrossFire connector (for extreme Windows gaming). November 6th, 2008 - We've received benchmark data from a reader who installed an Intel X25-M drive in his 13' MacBook. Not only is he getting 'killer' sustained READ speeds of over 260MB/s but his small random transactions per second are 'off the hook.'
Too bad it only comes in 80GB size and costs over $600! November 6th, 2008 - We confirmed on a 'late 2008' MacBook that the USB 2.0 speedup extends to that series.
Stay tuned for full test results on the 2.4GHz MacBook. November 4th, 2008 - We benchmarked using the. We transfered various file sizes from 2MB to 10MB. We averaged 40MB/s READ and 42MB/s WRITE. A full report will soon follow.
November 3rd, 2008 - BARE FEED? In case you didn't notice, we now have a BARE FEATS or 'BARE FEED' October 29th, 2008 - 'Late 2008' MacBook Pro supports up to 6GB of RAM. W hen we put one 4G + one 2G module for a total of 6GB in our 2.8GHz MacBook Pro, it is happy as a clam.
Everything runs fast and the full 6GB is accessible. And it releases the memory when you quit the app. October 28th, 2008 - HardMac has done some interesting speed tests: 1.
On the 'late 08' MBP. Which compares the speed of OpenGL 3D on the MBP GeForce 9400M vs 9600M GT September 23rd, 2008 - Adobe Photoshop CS4 should benefit from a fast GPU. According to the (and the product manager), CS4 uses the GPU to provide 'smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation.'
If you use the, the GPU helps with display and manipulation of 3D objects. Once we receive our copy, we will certainly be benchmarking those capabilities with various GPUs. (You can which will ship on October 14th.) BTW, the CS4 version of Photoshop will not be 64 bit.
However, the Windows version will be 64 bit. Adobe insists that the slight performance gain does not warrant a major rewrite of the code. Plus Mac OS X Leopard's ability to allocate additional memory cache beyond the 3GB limit negates the memory advantage of a 64 bit version. September 19th, 2008 - Four = 650MB/s! We can confirm with the help of the 'world's fastest' SATA/SAS host adapter, that you can get TWICE the transfer of the Apple (Pro RAID card).
Look for detailed report in a day or two. (Both the drives and adapter will be available from.) August 13th, 2008 - Western Digital now lists a on their website. Based on the, it appears you will be able to mount it on the Mac Pro standard sled and plug it into the motherboard connectors like a regular 3.5' SATA or SAS drive. However, we believe the coupled with the allows more air to move above and below the drive, allowing it to run cooler.
We plan to back up this belief by sampling internal and external temps during heavy operation in the near future. We expect to carry all versions of the Velociraptor.) July 31st, 2008 (Update) - Our sources tell us that Western Digital is will soon ship a 'bare' Velociraptor as well as a version that plugs into the Mac Pro backplane (WD3000HLFS). We will post links once our preferred resellers have them in stock.
Good to see WD respond to consumer criticism of their original design. July 31st, 2008 - now has the Radeon 3870 Mac & PC Edition in stock.
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July 10th, 2008 - July 9th, 2008 - CalDigit's RAID card supports up to 16 drives. We are currently testing it with four internal drives. It's a full length card that connects to the built-in mini-SAS connector the same way the Apple Pro RAID card does and offers an optional battery backup.
The RAID Shield software allows you to set up RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 0+1, and JBOD arrays. It is significantly faster than the Apple Pro RAID card, however, it currently only supports SATA drives.
Stay tuned for a full report. June 13th, 2008 - Highpoint sets new price/performance standard for SAS Host Adapters. Not only were we disappointed with the performance of Apple's Pro RAID card, but the prices was stiff at $800. The RR2640x4 is producing 50% faster transfer speeds with four internal SAS drives, thanks to the dual data channel, at one-fourth the price (under $200). It supports both SAS and SATA drives. Stay tuned for a full report. May 30th, 2008 - MaxUpgrades offers a SAS/SATA Link.
If you want to connect your Mac Pro's internal drives to a third party SATA or SAS RAID host adapter like the HighPoint RR3522 or RR2640x4, then you'll need a data cable to mate them. Visit the MaxUpgrades site to see details on the. May 1st, 2008 - Performance Analysis of new iMac. There are some significant improvements that should affects peformance: 1. Faster core speeds (up to 3.06GHz or 9% faster) 2.
Faster frontside Bus speed (1066MHz or 33% faster) 3. Faster memory bus (800MHz or 20% faster) 4. Faster graphics processor option with more VRAM (Geforce 8800 GS) We look forward to testing it and comparing it to the previously fastest iMac as well as to the Mac Pro.
April 25th, 2008 - ATI Radeon HD 2600 XTs can be run in CrossFire mode on your 'early 2008' Mac Pro. We jumpered two 2600s and booted up Vista 64 bit. It ran 3D Games like Prey, ETQW, and Unreal Tournament III twice as fast as a single 2600. However, the GeForce 8800 GT ran the same games 50% faster than the dual 2600s. And Crysis did not respond to CrossFire.
April 25th, 2008 (Update) - Corsair Low Latency memory for Apple laptops. We completed our testing of Corsair CAS 4 vs CAS 5 memory. To find out if it really makes your Mac go faster and find out who else offers CAS 4 memory. April 17th, 2008 - Compressor's virtual clustering now works right thanks to.
Some of you have asked how we got virtual clustering to work in our testing. We hesitated to answer because it would not always work as advertised. This update includes a Compressor 3.03 patch which appears to have fixed our problems. Now when we open the Apple Qmaster preference panel, we are able to select as many instances as we have cores.
April 15th, 2008 - You can now order the 'legacy' version of the GeForce 8800 GT in a kit form for 2006/2007 Mac Pro owners. When you visit the, click on 'Displays' in the left column and look for the Geforce 8800 GT labeled '1st Generation.' Let me remind you that our testing has shown this to be a card but a card (Motion, Aperture, FCP). We believe a Mac OS X compatible Radeon HD 3870 would perform better for Pro Apps. We are urging ATI/AMD to release such a card and will alert you if and when that happens. February 27th, 2008 - CRITIQUE of the new MacBook Pro announced yesterday: The new 45 nanometer processor is significant in that it draws less power and has the SSE4 vector engine that handles 128 bit computations in a single clock cycle. It also has a larger L2 cache (6MB vs 4MB).
I was hoping to see a CTO option for the 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme. The increased GDDR3 memory from 256MB to 512MB should come in handy when running apps like Motion and Aperture.
Too bad it's still a GeFore 8600M GT instead of being upgraded to an 8800M GTX or dual 8700M GT in SLI mode (a la ). The standard hard drive choices are good but I was hoping the new would be offered as an option. Even the WD 320GB Scorpio would be nice.
February 5th, 2008 - Microsoft Word 2008 is a slow spellchecker. We have a 100 page test file with one misspelled word at the end. It takes 21 seconds to find on the Mac Pro 3.2GHz. It took 28 seconds to find on the MacBook Pro 2.4. It only takes 5 seconds to find with MS Word 2004. When we open the 100 page file, it takes MS Word 2008 13 seconds to 'process' it before we can go the last page.
With MS Word 2004, we can go there instantly. January 29th, 2008 (Updated) - The Radeon X1900 XT works. on the new '2008' Mac Pro! Following a tip from a reader, we installed the X1900 in our 3.2GHz Mac Pro.
It works like a charm. (See our.) (. One user reported that the Radeon X1900 XT did NOT work in his 2008 Mac Pro. We didn't do anything special to get it to work in our 2008 Mac Pro. However, we do recall running the back in October 2007 when it was installed in our 2007 8-core Mac Pro.) January 17th, 2008 - FireWire 800 on the new '2008' Harpertown Mac Pro is faster than on the 2006/2007 Mac Pro. We did a quick test with the LaCie Little Big Disk (dual 7K notebook drive RAID 0). On the 2006 Mac Pro, we get 55MB/s READ/WRITE.
(100MB blocks, QuickBench) With the 2008 Mac Pro we get 75MB/s READ/WRITE! We understand this gain is due to the fact that the FireWire interface is now on the PCI Express bus. January 12th, 2008 (Updated) - The GeForce 8800 GT comes in a kit but will.NOT. work with your old Mac Pro, as we first thought. It only works with the 'Early 2008' Mac Pro.
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Usually this will take up to 1 working day. Product Features. Durable, polycarbonate hard-shell case prevents scrapes, scratches, and scuffs. Stylish see-through design and smooth texture with soft rubber coating. Tucano logo on case back cover. Apple logo is visible through case. Anti-slip rubber, bottom feet enhance stability.
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