Performance Testing & Benchmarking

• Enhancing and Accelerating Classic Mode under Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" (October 11, 2002)

Unsupported System Installations / Hacks

• Installing OpenGL while using Mac OS 8.6 (August 2, 2002)

Digital Video Benchmarking

• OS X Digital Video Benchmarking (May 7, 2002)

Benchmarking

• Upgrading Memory in the '08 Mac Pros (February 15, 2008)
• Upgrading Memory and Hard Drive in your MacBook Pro (May 31st, 2007)
• Upgrading Memory in your MacBook (May 31st, 2007)
• Mac mini benchmark testing (January 27, 2005)
• The ZIF Shootout
• Testing 100MHz & 133MHz single and dual AGP accelerator cards with Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" (December 19, 2003)
• Which is faster? Serial ATA or ATA/133 Parallel ATA? (October 10, 2003)
  OWC has tested every shipping single and dual processor upgrade for AGP systems in this article! Also compare G5 systems to upgrade cards!! (September 19, 2003, 13th and final Edition!)
• AGP Video Card Shootout - Why upgrade your video card and processor? (June 6, 2003)
• Comparison of current G3 and G4 processor upgrades in the Beige G3 & B&W G3 (March 28, 2003)
• Testing the Sonnet Encore/ST processors up to 1.2GHz and the PowerLogix PowerForce G4 Series 100 Dual processor (October 25, 2002, 11/15/02 and 1/31/03)
• Upgrading your 133MHz Power Mac G4 System (January 24, 2003)
• Add a faster ATA Controller to just about any Mac with a PCI Slot! (December 6, 2002)
• Performance testing upgrades using Photoshop 7 (November 1, 2002)
• Which is faster? A G3/500MHz-512k with a 3:1 cache or a G3/400MHz-1MB with a 2:1 cache? (October 18, 2002)
• Performance testing the Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4/800MHz upgrade (September 13, 2002)
• Performance testing the PowerLogix PowerForce G4 Series 100 1GHz and 800MHz Processor Upgrades (August 16, 2002, updated August 31, 2002)
• Testing using Let1KWindowsBloom and ShadowKiller (August 23, 2002)
• Which is faster? An upgraded Power Macintosh G4 "Sawtooth" or a top of the line iMac G4? (August 23, 2002)
• Review of the Newer Technology NuPowr G4/500 Pismo (July 12, 2002) (benchmarks included)
• Performance Testing the PowerMac Blue & White / OS X using SpeedRun (June 28, 2002)
• Upgrading your PCI Based Power Macintosh - 7300 System tested (May 1 - ?) - in progress
• Upgrading your Power Macintosh G3 "Beige" (April 19-26, 2002, page 3 updated June 21, 2002)

ATA Controller Cards & Software vs. Hardware RAIDs

• VST UltraTek ATA/66 Ultra ATA PCI Controller with 7600 Review (Feb, 2001)
• Software and Hardware RAID comparisons (Jan 15, 2001)

Putting FireWire to use for the Average and the Advanced User

• What FireWire Means to the Average User (November 21, 2001 )