![]() He took it into the Apple Store, they opened up the laptop, and his heatsink had cracked in half.” “And ran Geekbench, the numbers were half of what they should be. “Back a number of years ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who said, ‘Oh, yeah, I just used Geekbench the other day because my Mac felt slow,'” said Poole. He says that Geekbench can also be used to tell whether or not you have a hardware problem. “But when you get to a lot of other ones, the cross-platform ones that people hold up as the gold standards of CPU comparisons, they’re bears to run and, like, only a handful of people can do that.” “I think that’s one of the reasons why so popular is that, you know, you just download the app, click a button, and you’ve got a result three minutes later,” said Poole There’s a compromise between ease of use and in-depth measurements, and he wanted to create a simple tool anyone could use. Poole acknowledges that Geekbench is less relevant for heavy-duty graphics tasks, like gaming or video rendering, but says there are specialist tools available for that. The latest version has also been updated with tasks more people are carrying out, like creating background blur in video calls. Launching an app, opening a file, or installing an update requires a lot of speed for a little while, but once those tasks are done, your CPU can go back down to the near-idle state it spends most of its time in, and rendering windows and dialog boxes only requires tiny blips of performance from your computer’s GPU. The piece argues that, for everyday usage, peak performance is relevant. There have been endless debates about how relevant and meaningful Geekbench scores are, in large part because it’s a short test that effectively measures peak performance rather than accounting for things like thermal throttling, which kicks in during demanding use over a sustained period. The original Geekbench (called “Geekbench 2006” and apparently lost to time) supported Windows and macOS at launch. And so I thought, how hard can it be to write a benchmark? Maybe I should write my own.” “They weren’t really testing anything substantial, you know, doing really simple arithmetic operations on really small amounts of data, not really testing anything. “So I actually went and I reverse-engineered one of the popular benchmarks and found that the tests were, for lack of a better word, terrible,” said Poole. ![]() … So, you know, I grabbed what I could download and ran them and got really confused, because what the benchmarks were saying wasn’t jiving with my experience. And I thought, well, this is really strange what’s going on. I went out, bought one of the new G5s, and it felt slower than my previous Mac. And then the G5 came out and I thought, oh, this looks really cool. “So I was getting used to that ecosystem. “I just switched over to the Mac back in about 2002,” Poole told Ars. It began at the height of the PowerPC Mac era when Apple’s hardware was exotic and niche and apps that ran on Mac OS X were relatively rare. Geekbench’s cross-platform compatibility is part of its appeal, which has been baked into the benchmark since its earliest versions. ![]() Poole told the story to ArsTechnica ‘s Andrew Cunningham. Geekbench creator John Poole has explained why switching to Mac led to him creating the benchmarking tool – and how it helped diagnose a cracked heatsink in a more recent Mac … But, it sounds like I have too insignificant of a request to be promoted for change.Baseline test shows that my MacBook Pro is performing as expected As for now, even with this most recent beta, I'm still better off with the old version of MS RDC. If TSX can get there I'll switch sooner than later. I was able to find an old version of Microsoft's RDC v 8.0.39 which continues to work the way I prefer-an RDP connection filling only a specified screen in a specified space without blacking out or hiding the contents of the other monitor.īut, one day this version of RDC will be deprecated/no longer work and I'll need a replacement that works. Luckily, this is not a major deal for me - yet. Separating them means switching spaces multiple times instead of once to get my displays in the correct configuration. My preference is to have spaces respect all monitors. To your suggestion of selecting 'Displays have different spaces' option, this affects the rest of my workflow too much. ![]() Unfortunately, I'm still having the same issue. Revisiting TSX since you announced the new beta-I must have missed your last question from last December.
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