Primate Labs has a page of Mac speeds measured with Geekbench. It's a simple combination of memory and CPU performance.

I still have one of these running at home:

It comes dead bottom of the list. A little slow, but fine for kids games, email, and web browsing.

Tags: Macs, Speed

It's a documentary about the Mac, and it's coming. That's about all the web site will say about it. There are two teasers posted.

Tags: Fun, Macs, Movies, Interesting Stuff

Soyburger has a basement full of Macs and has posted photos on Flickr. There must be a hundred or so. All kinds, back to the original Apples, Mac, and the Lisa. Plus software, Newtons, PowerBooks, packaging, monitors, hard drives, iPods,..... There are many I don't think I have ever seen before.

Tags: Macs, Museum, Interesting Stuff

I see that Griffin Technology is now selling a card reader for the ExpressCard/34 slot found on the MacBook Pros. It works at USB 2.0 speed, so it almost certainly is plain USB 2.0 card reader chip packaged in the ExpressCard/34 format.

ExpressCard is actually supplied with two busses by the computer: USB 2.0 at 480 Mbps and a 1x PCI Express link. PCI Express (that's PCIe, not PCI-X which is PCI-Extended, a parallel bus) runs at a data rate of 2.5Gbps in both directions at once. Even a 1x PCIe link is potentially very fast: about 300MBytes/second for bulk data transfer. Overkill for current Flash cards, but given a few years will be about right. Read all about ExpressCard here.

Tags: ExpressCard, Macs