As we all should know, Microsoft and Apple have been leading competitors in the race for the best OS. It’s become quite clear that these latest two OSes aren’t as focused on more features, or looks, but rather on it’s overall performance. One crowd says one thing, while one says another. Using a very unbiased viewpoint from the guys over at cnet, we were able to see what runs quicker, or faster. Let’s get started.
These tests were run on a 2008 MacBook Pro (no removable battery pack and less juice than the recently released 2009 ones) , with 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, and a 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT video card. The Windows OS, 64-bit, is installed on a separate HD, 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue and the Snow Leopard OS is on a stock 320GB HD. 64 bit was chosen simply for comparison reasons. Apple says Snow Leopard is a 64-bit OS and to compare a 32bit OS to a 64bit OS is out of the question. Each of the HDs have the same specs and do not one thing over the other. For sake the the comparison, they are freshly installed OSes with the same applications being tested. iTunes 9, QuickTime, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, and Cinebench R10. Now that we’ve finished the basics, let’s discuss the overall performance of the two. Here’s the tests, which were run multiple times by cnet. Read the rest of this entry »
