Posted on Monday, July 25 2011 @ 20:33 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
When Apple released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion last week Wednesday,
they not only put out their new operating system, but they also released
new Mac Mini and MacBook Air hardware. The primary changes for both the
Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that both form factors are now
shipping with Intel's latest "Sandy Bridge" processors, there is the new
Thunderbolt I/O, and of course, they are shipping with Mac OS X 10.7
Lion. This hardware update led me to immediately order the new Mac Mini
as the latest piece of Apple hardware at Phoronix. Not because Phoronix
is part of the Apple cult (since, after all, Phoronix is the leading
Linux hardware site), but an immense curiosity about the Intel Sandy
Bridge Mac OS X graphics driver. In particular, to see how Apple's Sandy
Bridge driver compares to the Linux and Windows driver. Well, that was
the plan at least, prior to the untimely demise of the new Apple hardware.
Read more
at Phoronix.
