Up till now, Mac users have been spoiled. Each and every release of Mac OS X has been shown to be demonstrably faster than its predecessor, whereas with Microsoft Windows it’s usually the reverse.
However, Leopard includes a huge amount of under-the-hood changes that tax the graphics processors fiercely, particularly on slower Macs. On the other [...]

Mac users have a right to feel a little deprived when it comes to getting the latest and greatest graphics hardware at affordable prices. In fact, I remember when you actually had to spend several thousand dollars for something that bore the name of “Thunder something-or-other” in the hope of blasting pixels on your screen [...]

Way back when, when the first Power Macs hit the streets, I found performance with older Mac apps to be perfectly awful. It seemed as if I had gone back two generations in chip design, from the PowerPC to the 68030, and that was being generous. So when another emulation scheme was announced, Rosetta, which [...]