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Examining Whether The A16 Bionic Chip Is Really Just an A15+
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Examining Whether The A16 Bionic Chip Is Really Just an A15+

Jeff Butts · 5:18 PM EDT, Oct 6th, 2022 · 1 Comment

With Apple’s move to an A16 Bionic chip for its iPhone 14 Pro family, benchmarks hint the new SoC might be more aptly named the A15+ instead.

2019 MacBook Air Has Slower SSD Than 2018 Model
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2019 MacBook Air Has Slower SSD Than 2018 Model

Andrew Orr · 4:07 PM EDT, Jul 15th, 2019 · 2 Comments

The 2019 MacBook Air released last week has a slower SSD than the 2018 MacBook Air. The 128GB and 256GB models were tested.

Mystery iPhone with 4 GB RAM Benchmarked
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Mystery iPhone with 4 GB RAM Benchmarked

Jeff Gamet · 11:00 AM EDT, Jul 2nd, 2018 · Add Comment

The iPhone X has 3 GB RAM—the most in any iPhone model—but an iPhone with 4 GB RAM has shown up in Geekbench.

Geekbench Results Tease 6-Core MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM
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Geekbench Results Tease 6-Core MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM

Jim Tanous · 6:38 AM EDT, Jun 4th, 2018 · 2 Comments

Geekbench results posted this weekend appear to show an upcoming MacBook Pro featuring the latest 6-core Intel processor and 32GB of RAM, a major upgrade over the current 4-core models limited to 16GB of RAM. This suggests that a 6-core MacBook Pro could make its debut this week at WWDC.

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Yes, High Sierra on Older Macs Really Does Boost Performance
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Yes, High Sierra on Older Macs Really Does Boost Performance

Jeff Butts · 11:07 AM EDT, Oct 17th, 2017 · 4 Comments

While Jeff Butts doesn’t use his mid-2010 Mac Mini as often as his other Mac, it’s definitely worth noting that the elderly computer performs so well with the newer version of the operating system.

New iPad Pro Models Can Outperform MacBook Pro
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New iPad Pro Models Can Outperform MacBook Pro

Andrew Orr · 6:28 PM EDT, Jun 15th, 2017 · Add Comment

New benchmarks of the iPad Pro models shows that the 10.5-inch iPad Pro reigns supreme in GPU performance.

Benchmarking iPad Pro 12.9-inch: 2015 vs 2017
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Benchmarking iPad Pro 12.9-inch: 2015 vs 2017

John Kheit · 1:14 AM EDT, Jun 15th, 2017 · 3 Comments

This includes some benchmarks from Geekbench 4 and PerformanceTest Mobile, as well as my experiments with Apple Pencil.

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