Author News Archive
Review: Tiny Wings for iOS
Foundation 003 – Philip Rosedale of SecondLife
Foundation 002 – Jeff Smith of Smule, Inc.
Weekend Project: Mac Pro Resurrection
This weekend I stripped out all of the hard drives from my old Early 2006 Mac Pro and replaced the boot drive with an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD boot drive and a 3TB Raid 0 to use as a scratch disk for video. The resulting speed boost was excellent!
Performance (Read/Write) of the SSD Boot Drive:
Performance (Read/Write) of the 3TB Raid0:
As a matter of fact, after these improvements the Mac Pro now scores almost as high as my brand new 27″ Core i5 iMac on XBench tests!
Red: 2010 iMac, Blue: 2006 Mac Pro with SSD boot drive
The Verizon iPhone- Pros & Cons
I went on AppJudgment today to talk about the newly announced Verizon iPhone and the Pros & Cons of switching to Verizon from AT&T. Check it out!