Does the Update Slow Down an Older iPhone? Ours Gained More Than the New One.
A 2022 iPhone and a 2026 iPhone, both measured 24 hours after updating to iOS 27. Both got faster. The four-year-old phone gained 4.8 points more.
Everyone Says Wait a Few Days After an Update. We Measured During the Wait.
Every guide says wait a few days before judging an update. We measured during the wait, watched reindexing take a quarter of a CPU, then measured again after.
The Update Made Our Browser Faster and Our Mac Slower. Same Machine.
The same MacBook Pro ran the browser 12.4% faster and compressed files 9.7% slower after the update. Same machine, same day, same measuring session.
Apple Says the Update Makes Things Faster. We Measured Five Devices.
Five devices with measured baselines from the week before. All five got faster after the update — by between 4.3% and 24.9%. The spread is the part worth reading.
Does a MacBook Run Slower on Battery? We Measured a Four-Year-Old One
A four-year-old MacBook Pro at 86% battery ran every test at full speed unplugged. The widest gap we found was 1.2% — inside this machine’s run-to-run noise.
Your MacBook Is Slower Than It Should Be. Here’s the 20% You’re Losing.
The same Mac, measured twice an hour apart, came out 20% apart. The machine never changed. The contaminated run made an older Mac look faster than a newer one.
Does Your MacBook Slow Down Under Load? We Ran Three Flat Out to Find Out.
Eight minutes at full load on three MacBook Pros. None of them throttled — the oldest finished 2.1% slower than it started, which is inside its own noise.
Four Years and 264 Cycles: What a MacBook Pro Battery Actually Looks Like
264 charge cycles, four years, 86% capacity. Read off three machines the same day, with the part nobody can tell you: how it was charged.
We Ranked Five Apple Devices by Browser Speed. A Phone Beat the iPad Pro.
Speedometer 3.1 on five Apple devices we own, three passes each. The iPhone 17 Pro finished ahead of a 13-inch iPad Pro — and a laptop beat a tablet running the same chip.
Should You Replace an M1 Pro MacBook Pro? It Depends on One Question.
Four years of silicon buys between 1.40× and 2.38×, and which end you land on depends on one question about your work. We measured both ends.