Fact or fiction: What does (and doesn't) actually speed up your Mac<article>
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A faster Mac is always a better Mac, and there are many things you can do to get the most performance from your computer. But what really works? Here are some common myths about Macs and what does—and does not—affect performance.</p><h2>1. ‘More processing cores always means better performance.’</h2>
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To test this theory, we ran benchmarks on two 2012 Mac Pros, one with 12 processing cores running at 2.4GHz and one with a quad-core processor running at 3.2GHz. With a MathematicaMark score of 5.70, the 12-core Mac Pro’s result was twice that of the quad-core Mac Pro. The 12-core Mac Pro also finished the Cinebench CPU test in the half the time of the quad-core Mac Pro.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2094781/fact-or-fiction-what-does-and-doesnt-actually-speed-up-your-mac.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Fact or fiction: What does (and doesn't) actually speed up your Mac
