I’ve run Xbench a few more times, this time running only CPU tests and while booted in 64 bit and 32 bit (default). My Macbook Pro consistently scores 10-15 points higher in the speed tests while booted in 64 bit.
If you’d like to try it yourself restart your Mac and hold down “6″ and “4″ [...]

Apple secured huge revenue this quarter, in the thick of a recession. Steve Jobs commented, “Even in these economically challenging times, we are incredibly pleased to report our best quarterly revenue and earnings in Apple history—surpassing $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time ever.”
Not too shabby Apple. What’s more impressive is the staggering [...]

RIM has finally decided to release a Blackberry Desktop Manager to allow their devices to sync properly with OS X on the Mac. Umm… Did you guys just realize that you haven’t been invited to this party?
I used to be an avid BB user. I praised it’s ingenuity and ease of use until I fully [...]

For those of you who haven’t already heard, Hotz and some friends have released purplera1n, their version of a Jailbreak app for the iPhone 3GS.
I haven’t tried purplera1n yet as version 1 was very buggy and I have too much loyalty to the Devteam, but supposedly the Mac / OS X release is much more [...]

Apple recently sent me the 5,1 version of the Macbook Pro, also reffered to as the Unibody Macbook Pro or the Late 2008 Macbook Pro. My previous macbook pro (version 4,1) was purchased back in June 2008 and supposedly has the faulty Nvidia GPU problem.
I’ve had the new MBP, fully loaded, for 3 days and [...]