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/08/06/03/webkit.squirrelfish/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/3-fish-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The WebKit development team on Tuesday unveiled a new JavaScript rendering engine called SquirrelFish for the open source browser, making the browser perform 1.6 times faster on the SunSpider benchmark. SquirrelFish is billed as a register-based, direct threaded, high-level bytecode engine with a sliding register window calling convention. The engine was designed around current theories and resear... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/03/webkit.squirrelfish/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/01/shadescases.for.iphone/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/reviews/iplaymusic/iplaymusic-icon_med.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In brief: We have a review of iPlayMusic, ShadesCases for the iPhone have been released, the new iMacs have been benchmarked and a pink version of OtterBox is coming soon ... We have posted a review of iPlayMusic, which provides a Step-by-step Guide and QuickTime videos that show you the anatomy of a guitar, how to hold and tune it, plus many pages of chords and fingerings along with different mus... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/01/shadescases.for.iphone/ Thu, 01 May 2008 22:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/30/cw.ssd.drives.overrated/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0803/macbookair.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />People contemplating SSD versions of computers like the MacBook Air -- which costs approximately $1,300 more than the HDD edition -- may not find the performance difference worthwhile, writes Computerworld. The magazine has conducted a test of 32GB SSDs by Crucial and Ridata, in comparison to two 7200rpm hard drives by Seagate. All four drives used cloned copies of Vista Home Premium, and were b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/30/cw.ssd.drives.overrated/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/17/macs.better.at.vista/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0804/vistahomepremium-box.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Popular Mechanics says that Macs run Windows Vista better than PCs designed to run the operating system. The magazine published an analysis based on user feedback and performance benchmarks for similarly equipped machines, using a number of 'real world' tests to evaluate the machines. Testers were asked to set up the computers right out of the box and "explore the machines through everyday tasks s... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/17/macs.better.at.vista/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:35:00 GMT 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/08/03/31/pc.macbook.pro.review/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/penryn_macbook_pro_pcmag_review.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's new 15" MacBook Pro, based on Intel's latest Penryn processor, earned high marks from PC Magazine. In a recently published review, Editor Cisco Cheng took the new model for a test drive, benchmarking performance and feature enhancements. His conclusion - MacBook Pro is a winner. Cheng called it "one of the fastest laptops I've tested". That's high praise indeed, coming from a publication d... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/31/pc.macbook.pro.review/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/27/mbp.benchmarks/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0802/macbookpro-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Less than 24 hours after their introduction, Apple's new MacBook Pros based on Intel's Penryn Core 2 Duo architecture have been benchmarked using the venerable Geekbench utility. PrimateLabs tested the MacBook Pro (Early 2008) with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 @ 2.50GHz and MacBook Pro (Early 2008) with Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz; comparing them to the MacBook Pro (Mid 2007) with an Intel Core ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/27/mbp.benchmarks/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/04/macbook.air.impressions/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/mnn_080204_mbavsibg4sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Following our MacBook Air teardown, delivery/unboxing, accessory photos and benchmarks, we have our first impressions of the MacBook Air: Having had the pleasure of using the new MacBook Air (MBA) for the past two days, I can say that Apple has accomplished an amazing feat of engineering and delivered a truly impressive subnotebook computer, although not completely without compromise. The MacBook... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/04/macbook.air.impressions/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:30:00 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/08/01/24/new.mac.pro.benchmarks/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/app_080124_macprosm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Benchmarks of Apple's new Mac Pro systems -- which began shipping earlier this year -- show how the latest systems stack up against each other as well as the company's older workstations. Overall performance ratings placed the Mac Pro 3.2GHz at the top of the charts in both 64-bit and 32-bit tests. Tests show that the performance difference between Apple's 2.8GHz and 3.2GHz Mac Pros is not as grea... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/24/new.mac.pro.benchmarks/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:25:00 GMT