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04-17-2008, 05:04 PM
|  | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | Mac vs PC - Benchmark & Speed Tests by Popular Mechanics
Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops Here Quote:
This computer rivalry has been elevated to a cultural divide on par with Pepsi versus Coke. Taking it beyond personal taste, PM crunches the numbers—with some surprising results (and detailed benchmark scores).
We all know the stereotypes. Apple’s popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people. And if the marketing is to be believed, the former is a hip, sport-coat-and-sneakers- wearing type of guy who uses his computer for video chatting, music mash-ups and other cool, creative pursuits that starchy, business-suited PC users could never really appreciate unless they tried them on the slick Apple interface. Then again, Windows PC enthusiasts probably think that Mac guy is a smug slacker with an overpriced toy that can’t do any serious computing anyway. Funny thing is, both stereotypes are wrong.
| The thing I'm most upset about is the picture. I got a Mac, I like it. I got a PC, I like it. I HATE PEPSI either way!
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04-17-2008, 05:15 PM
|  | The Sky is Over | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Boston
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Originally Posted by CmdrTulkas 
I HATE PEPSI either way!
| Maybe they choose Pepsi versus Coke because Coke was first (as was PC) and Pepsi was second (as was Mac) |
04-17-2008, 05:21 PM
| | The Sky is Over | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Boston
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In our speed trials, however, Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times
| important tasks involve shut down? and as long as it doesn't take 5 minutes to boot up, do we really care about boot time?
gimme a break. |
04-17-2008, 05:40 PM
|  | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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: 64 th | | | ya for some reason people put a premium on boot times. what I really care about is return from sleep time. OSX dominates vista/XP in that arena...but even XP is better than Vista in my experience with it |
04-17-2008, 05:43 PM
| | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | i remember when i got my Mac, and i was asking my friend(s) for all kinds of help and they were telling me i was trying to make it seem more difficult then it is. I think truth be told, it isn't always as simple as apple says it is. But, I do enjoy both.
One thing I noticed using XP via bootcamp, is that it outputs sound a million times louder then it does in OS X
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04-17-2008, 06:09 PM
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| | | I'm not really buying into their "benchmarks". Let's see standardized tests like a 500mb video encoding, PCMark05, 3DMark06, PCVantage, etc.
And frankly, no matter what flavor you prefer, those all-in-one PCs are just silly. Maybe Suzy Homemaker might like one for storing recipes in the kitchen, but they're ALL (Apple and PC) pretty much useless machines.
As far as notebooks go... wtf did they pick Asus? Good company and all, but I'd rather see an HP or a Dell go up against the Apple since that's what your average buyer is owning.
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04-17-2008, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Craig | By sleep you mean stand-by or hibernate?
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04-17-2008, 06:25 PM
| | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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: 64 th | | | whatever you call it when you close the lid and the PC shuts down, and then you open it again and poof, everything comes back on. |
04-17-2008, 06:52 PM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | Yeah. OS X has that perfect. If I close the lid and open it later, I'm sitting at my usable desktop in 1 second or less. It's pretty damn instant.
Anyway, considering the benchmarks test CPU functionality more-so than actual applications, all the results should be fairly identical. In real-world applications, running apps in OS X should be faster than XP simply on the fact that it's a much better design and far newer. The kernel is amazing as are all the components and libraries of OS X. Now that OS X is running on Intel processors, the Macs even have support for SSE and MMX. Before, they were stuck with Altivec which didn't compare.
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04-17-2008, 08:26 PM
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| | | This doesn't take gaming into account... which is what this website is based on if I recall correctly.
Games are designed for windows. The day I see a MAC that can support DX10 and run a game as seamlessly as windows, I'll consider making one my primary machine.
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