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2023-12-31 How Fast a GPU for AI Denoise and Focus Stacking? Distributed GPU Support for AI Denoise?

2023-12-28 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: GPU Performance and Fan Noise 'Gaming the System'?

2023-07-18 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Buggy Performance with GPU and CPU that Requires Reboot to Fix

2023-07-16 Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise —  Crashes Ordinary Video Cards

2023-06-09 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Trading Up

2022-03-11 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Estimated Performance: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

2022-01-29 Adobe Photoshop Vertical Line Artifacts after Smart Sharpen on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

2022-01-22 Beware of Claims for Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max Speed Gains Over Intel! OpenCL on/off can be win/lose

2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support

2020-02-02 28-Core Apple Mac Pro with AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

2020-01-10 Phase One Capture One 20: Negligible CPU Core Utilization while Importing Images, Regenerating Previews + Inscrutable GPU Usage

2020-01-09 AMD Radeon Pro 580X in 2019 Mac Pro Badly Lags the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 in the 2019 iMac 5K

2020-01-05 2019 Mac Pro: Detailed Analysis of Phase One Capture One 20 Performance, GPU and CPU Utilization

2019-12-30 Too-High Pixel Density on 5K, 8K, Retina Displays Impedes Image Sharpness Assessment

2019-11-20 Thoughts on Choosing Between the Apple 2019 Mac Pro vs 2019 MacBook Pro 16-Inch and Expected 2020 iMac Pro

2019-11-18 2019 Apple MacBook Pro with 16" Display: the Single Computer Solution At Last

2019-11-14 2019 Apple MacBook Pro with 16" Display

2019-09-20 Upscaling/Uprezzing Images: Gigapixel AI Stuns Versus Photoshop Upscaling

2019-06-23 At a Glance: Why the 2019 iMac 5K Rocks for my Photo Work, and Why the GPU is Much Less Important than 8 Fast CPU Cores

2019-06-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Everything I Want... but Truly High-End and Unaffordable for Most

2019-05-16 How Much Does the GPU Matter for Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details?

2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?

2019-04-08 Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details Feature: Integrated into my Workflow... How Much Does it Use the GPU?

2019-03-21 The New 2019 iMac 5K for Photographers

2018-07-06 OWC Mercury Helios FX Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Chassis for PCIe Graphics Cards

2017-12-20 iMac Pro Models for Photographers

2017-12-14 iMac Pro: Pricing and Thoughts

2017-11-24 Reader Comments on my “Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again” post: More CPU Cores and Dual GPUs vs Single GPU (and performance with PhaseONE CaptureOne Pro)

2017-11-23 Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again

2017-05-23 Too-High Pixel Density on 5K and 8K Displays Impedes Image Assessment

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2023-12-28 Apple 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Intolerably Noisy with full GPU Usage

2023-12-28 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Intolerably Loud Fan Noise

2023-12-28 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise + Enhance Details

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Testing Notes

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Photoshop Assemble Panorama

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Photoshop Filters

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Lightroom Import/Export

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Image Scaling, Topaz Gigapixel AI

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Recommended Models and Accessories

2023-12-18 Apple 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Intolerably Noisy with full GPU Usage

2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura

2023-08-02 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Sleep/Wakeup Causes Drastic Loss of Performance for both CPU and GPU — FIXED in macOS Ventura 13.5

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Blog posts, reverse chronological

2023

2023-12-31 How Fast a GPU for AI Denoise and Focus Stacking? Distributed GPU Support for AI Denoise?

2023-12-28 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: GPU Performance and Fan Noise 'Gaming the System'?

2023-07-18 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Buggy Performance with GPU and CPU that Requires Reboot to Fix

2023-07-16 Adobe Camera Raw AI Denoise —  Crashes Ordinary Video Cards

2023-06-09 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Trading Up

2022

2022-03-11 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Estimated Performance: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

2022-01-29 Adobe Photoshop Vertical Line Artifacts after Smart Sharpen on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

2022-01-22 Beware of Claims for Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max Speed Gains Over Intel! OpenCL on/off can be win/lose

2021

2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support

2020

2020-02-02 28-Core Apple Mac Pro with AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

2020-01-10 Phase One Capture One 20: Negligible CPU Core Utilization while Importing Images, Regenerating Previews + Inscrutable GPU Usage

2020-01-09 AMD Radeon Pro 580X in 2019 Mac Pro Badly Lags the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 in the 2019 iMac 5K

2020-01-05 2019 Mac Pro: Detailed Analysis of Phase One Capture One 20 Performance, GPU and CPU Utilization

2019

2019-12-30 Too-High Pixel Density on 5K, 8K, Retina Displays Impedes Image Sharpness Assessment

2019-11-20 Thoughts on Choosing Between the Apple 2019 Mac Pro vs 2019 MacBook Pro 16-Inch and Expected 2020 iMac Pro

2019-11-18 2019 Apple MacBook Pro with 16" Display: the Single Computer Solution At Last

2019-11-14 2019 Apple MacBook Pro with 16" Display

2019-09-20 Upscaling/Uprezzing Images: Gigapixel AI Stuns Versus Photoshop Upscaling

2019-06-23 At a Glance: Why the 2019 iMac 5K Rocks for my Photo Work, and Why the GPU is Much Less Important than 8 Fast CPU Cores

2019-06-04 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Everything I Want... but Truly High-End and Unaffordable for Most

2019-05-16 How Much Does the GPU Matter for Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details?

2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?

2019-04-08 Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details Feature: Integrated into my Workflow... How Much Does it Use the GPU?

2019-03-21 The New 2019 iMac 5K for Photographers

2018

2018-07-06 OWC Mercury Helios FX Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Chassis for PCIe Graphics Cards

2017

2017-12-20 iMac Pro Models for Photographers

2017-12-14 iMac Pro: Pricing and Thoughts

2017-11-24 Reader Comments on my “Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again” post: More CPU Cores and Dual GPUs vs Single GPU (and performance with PhaseONE CaptureOne Pro)

2017-11-23 Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again

2017-05-23 Too-High Pixel Density on 5K and 8K Displays Impedes Image Assessment

2017-04-11 Which is faster for RAW File Conversion, CPU or GPU?

2017-01-07 Too-High Pixel Density on 5K and 8K Displays Impedes Image Assessment

2016

2016-12-19 Sigma Releases Sigma Photo Pro 6.5.0

2015

2015-12-03 Photoshop CC 2015 Latest Release: Show-Stopper Drawing Bug (UPDATE: fix coming)

2015-12-02 Photoshop CC 2015: 10-bit Per Channel (30-bit Color) Now Supported

2015-12-01 Photoshop CC 2015: Same Old Bugs, Sports New Uglified Preferences

2015-11-23 Photoshop and GPU: Blurry Image Scaling Damages Image Assessment Workflow

2015-07-21 Photoshop CC 2014 Now Gets the CC 2015 Bugs

2015-07-09 Photoshop CC 2015 Rife With Bugs

2014

2014-11-02 Photoshop and GPU: Blurry Image Scaling

2014-04-21 Phase One CaptureONE Pro to Fully Utilize All GPUs Available

2014-01-18 2013 Mac Pro Tests: Lightroom, Photoshop, Aperture, and More

2014-01-17 PhaseOne CaptureOne Pro: GPUs are 3X Faster than CPU on 2013 Mac Pro

2012

2012-07-13 Image Sharpness in Photoshop CS6 with/without the GPU Enabled

2009

2009-03-03 New Mac Pro — what is Apple smoking?

2007

2007-03-03 Mac Pro video problems (ATI X1900 video card) update

2007-03-01 Mac Pro video problems (ATI X1900 video card)

2007-01-31 ATI X1900 G5 Edition

2006

2006-08-08 Why I won’t be buying a MacPro for at least 9 months

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