Put your specs on: Two sites for finding Apple details ↦

I’m a bit in awe of Parish Khan’s Mac Cable Bandwidth Calculator, an interactive web site that lets you visualize the combination of cable and Mac you need to drive particular displays, based on their resolution, color depth, and refresh rate. Even better, the site packages it in an appealing way. Parish built this tool due to frequent questions from the site’s visitors, the same thing that led me to write several columns at Macworld—particularly about connecting legacy displays and modern Macs.

Parish sending me a link to the site led me to do some final tweaking on a project I’ve had brewing for a while: the much less fancy Apple Specs Database. I built this site to help me figure out which hardware appears on given Apple devices, and which features are present in operating systems across Apple’s platforms. It lets me answer questions like, “What’s the oldest iPhone that supports MagSafe?” This is almost the inverse of the long-running MacTracker, which is organized around devices.

Go to the linked site.

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