http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/04/macbook.benches/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0803/app_080305_booksmartsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Primate Labs has published new benchmarks for MacBooks and MacBook Pros released in early 2008. The models show marginal speed gains over their predecessors, in some cases exhibiting performance slower or roughly equal to previous models. The MacBook Pro Early 2008, for instance, shows a gain of just under three percent over the Mid 2007 MacBook Pro -- scores of 3323 and 3236 respectively. The Ear... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/04/macbook.benches/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/05/new.macbooks.slower/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0803/app_080305_booksmartsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Primate Labs has taken a close look at the performance of Apple's lastest MacBook, and claims that the newest base model is slower than the previous generation. A performance comparison via Geekbench -- an application designed to test the speed of computers in various areas -- revealed higher scores for MacBooks released in early 2008 than the latest models offered by Apple. In overall performance... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/05/new.macbooks.slower/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/04/macbook.air.benchmark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0712/4-air-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The MacBook Air has caused quite a stir with its slender packaging and minimalist features, but many have wondered what they are giving up in terms of performance by trading in their MacBooks and MacBook Pros for the ultraportable. Primate Labs recently benchmarked the miniature laptop, and found that performance was around 80- to 85-percent of that of a 2GHz MacBook. While the Air pulled ahead sl... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/04/macbook.air.benchmark/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/10/primate.labs.tests.mac.pro/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/10-macpro-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Primate Labs today released figures regarding performance of the new Mac Pro versus the old eight-core model. The old model is configured with the eight-core Xeon X5365, running at 3GHz, while the newer model features the Xeon W5462 running at 2.8GHz per core. Both machines were tested using Mac OS X 10.5.1, with the new Mac Pro using 2GB of RAM, versus the former that uses 1GB. Primate Labs says ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/10/primate.labs.tests.mac.pro/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:20:00 GMT