Anyone with common sense can see this is biased. How about comparing Office versions?
Word and Excel is dog slow on the Mac. It runs a lot faster on a PC. But we will stick with the iTunes and Quicktime results because it looks better :-)
"The look of censorship" Ha ha! Give us a break! Flash wastes RAM and CPU and ClickToFlash is the best way to solve that problem.
Your opinion that it "looks like censorship" is irrelevant and it's simply your opinion. The rest of us are able to tell what real censorship looks like so ClickToFlash is not a problem.
ClickToFlash saves CPU cycles and my nerves Flash on Mac OS X realyy sucks. How 320x240 flash banner can eat 60% CPU?
Crappy article... Couldn't this have just as easily been titlted "Apple software runs slower under windows"? They really should have tested more non-apple software. Especially something modern and available in 64-bit on both, Lightroom comes to mind. for example.tOt would have been good to also see something like Photoshop which is 64-bit on Windows but 32-bit on Mac. I look forward to someone doing a proper and thourough review.
Crappy article... Couldn't this have just as easily been titlted "Apple software runs slower under windows"? They really should have tested more non-apple software. Especially something modern and available in 64-bit on both, Lightroom comes to mind. for example.tOt would have been good to also see something like Photoshop which is 64-bit on Windows but 32-bit on Mac. I look forward to someone doing a proper and thourough review.
On the same hardware, Lightroom and DXO Optics Pro run faster on Windows 7 than in Leopard
A Apple OS is faster on a Apple machine.. WOW I did NOT expect that! /sarcasem I'd say that a Windows 7 is faster on a Windows laptop. But oh wait, os x can only run on Apple stuff.
I find this test a waste of time for something we already knew.
er... doesn't running windows on a macbook make it a windows laptop??
I do love Apple and all its products, but this article should never have been posted. the difference in response rates for the average user is really nothing and to be frank and its all about bragging rights, which is not much.
Even if this was compared with a comparable HP system with a Macbook and Windows 7 edged OSX SL that still would be bad.
Tack on anti-virus and anti-malware software and you'll lose anywhere between 5 to 20% of your system performance. Then over time your registry becomes bloated and slows down lookups that all apps do and so on. Whatever edge Windows 7 had at the beginning is soon gone after a month of use.
Even if this was compared with a comparable HP system with a Macbook and Windows 7 edged OSX SL that still would be bad.
Tack on anti-virus and anti-malware software and you'll lose anywhere between 5 to 20% of your system performance. Then over time your registry becomes bloated and slows down lookups that all apps do and so on. Whatever edge Windows 7 had at the beginning is soon gone after a month of use.
5% to 20%? No, 134%.
My God, I'm using now Windows 7 because I'm downloading Steam games. I'm using Windows Microsoft Essentials.
Task manager says I have 69 (I like his number :P) open processes, Steam is downloading 8 games at a time, I have 17 open tabs in Firefox (the program which uses most RAM, 125MB) and those are the stattistics:
1) Windows Update updates Windows, Office, other Microsoft programs, AND hardware device drivers -- just like Software Update and respective Apple software. So what's your problem?
2) Disk Defrag is built into Windows. Memory defrag? WTF? Mail and Contacts are built-in with Windows. IE8 is a sucky browser for power users, but it works just fine for everyday users. My parents use it just fine (they're 59 and 60). Malware detection is present natively in Windows 7 with Windows Defender.
I'll spot you the antivirus, but Microsoft provides their AV software for free:
Windows Update worked for %30 of my software and took forever. Because of the instability one had to update by parts, restart numerous times, and every week there was a freaking update. Factor into that the other 70% of software which had their own separate updates, each happening very often and you have a situation where you spend a considerable time every day updating and restarting.
With a Mac all of that is gone. Updating works for 80% of my software (because Apple has the best in class in what I need almost always), it happens completely in the background and only occasionally (a few times a year) asks you to restart, which takes 1 minute.
So one has a situation where you spend a couple of hours a week on one OS and a couple of hour a YEAR with the other OS.
Windows Update worked for %30 of my software and took forever. Because of the instability one had to update by parts, restart numerous times, and every week there was a freaking update. Factor into that the other 70% of software which had their own separate updates, each happening very often and you have a situation where you spend a considerable time every day updating and restarting.
Hi! I've been using the final version of Windows 7 for several weeks now together with Office 2007 and Visual Studio and Windows Update worked for me each and every time quite reliably. Are you sure that you used Windows recently? Even updates which require a restart will usually just wait until you shutdown the computer. This has actually been the case for a couple of years, even the XP updater got revamped with a service pack. For your information, with Security Essentials there's even now a daily update (signatures).
So what's your point? Playing the anecdotal evidence game?
Tack on anti-virus and anti-malware software and you'll lose anywhere between 5 to 20% of your system performance. Then over time your registry becomes bloated and slows down lookups that all apps do and so on. Whatever edge Windows 7 had at the beginning is soon gone after a month of use.
Hi! Macs are overprized PCs with an insecure operating system for fashion divas with an inferiority complex who define themselves through the computer they own. Geez, I love making those blanket statements, too!
Hi! Macs are overprized PCs with an insecure operating system for fashion diva's with an inferiority complex who define themselves through the computer they own. Geez, I love making those blanket statements, too!
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Anyone with common sense can see this is biased. How about comparing Office versions?
Word and Excel is dog slow on the Mac. It runs a lot faster on a PC. But we will stick with the iTunes and Quicktime results because it looks better :-)
Regardless, the only speed test I care about is me.
Exactly, and in the same exact hardware there are applications I use that run faster in Mac OS X and others that run faster in Windows 7.
Which eats CPU cycles.
Well I declare!!! You serious? Really?? An application that runs in the background uses CPU cycles? Well spank my ass and call me Charlie!!
You don't want to know how much crap I have running on my MacBook Pro right now
"The look of censorship" Ha ha! Give us a break! Flash wastes RAM and CPU and ClickToFlash is the best way to solve that problem.
Your opinion that it "looks like censorship" is irrelevant and it's simply your opinion. The rest of us are able to tell what real censorship looks like so ClickToFlash is not a problem.
ClickToFlash saves CPU cycles and my nerves
You don't want to know how much crap I have running on my MacBook Pro right now
You are right, I don't.
But the real question is which seems snappier?
ahh! thank god - the voice of reason!
Crappy article... Couldn't this have just as easily been titlted "Apple software runs slower under windows"? They really should have tested more non-apple software. Especially something modern and available in 64-bit on both, Lightroom comes to mind. for example.tOt would have been good to also see something like Photoshop which is 64-bit on Windows but 32-bit on Mac. I look forward to someone doing a proper and thourough review.
On the same hardware, Lightroom and DXO Optics Pro run faster on Windows 7 than in Leopard
A Apple OS is faster on a Apple machine.. WOW I did NOT expect that! /sarcasem I'd say that a Windows 7 is faster on a Windows laptop. But oh wait, os x can only run on Apple stuff.
I find this test a waste of time for something we already knew.
er... doesn't running windows on a macbook make it a windows laptop??
On the same hardware, Lightroom and DXO Optics Pro run faster on Windows 7 than in Leopard
I'm not surprised. All Adobe products run faster on Windows, mainly because Mac version are still 32 bit and carbon based.
I'm not surprised. All Adobe products run faster on Windows, mainly because Mac version are still 32 bit and carbon based.
DXO is not from Adobe, is a OS X Cocoa 32 bit application and Windows .NET 32 bit application.
And iTunes is still a 32 bit Carbon application, doesn't it?
Tack on anti-virus and anti-malware software and you'll lose anywhere between 5 to 20% of your system performance. Then over time your registry becomes bloated and slows down lookups that all apps do and so on. Whatever edge Windows 7 had at the beginning is soon gone after a month of use.
DXO is not from Adobe, is a OS X Cocoa 32 bit application and Windows .NET 32 bit application.
And iTunes is still a 32 bit Carbon application, doesn't it?
I was refering to Adobe part
Even if this was compared with a comparable HP system with a Macbook and Windows 7 edged OSX SL that still would be bad.
Tack on anti-virus and anti-malware software and you'll lose anywhere between 5 to 20% of your system performance. Then over time your registry becomes bloated and slows down lookups that all apps do and so on. Whatever edge Windows 7 had at the beginning is soon gone after a month of use.
5% to 20%? No, 134%.
My God, I'm using now Windows 7 because I'm downloading Steam games. I'm using Windows Microsoft Essentials.
Task manager says I have 69 (I like his number :P) open processes, Steam is downloading 8 games at a time, I have 17 open tabs in Firefox (the program which uses most RAM, 125MB) and those are the stattistics:
CPU use: 2%-5%
Memory use: 17% of 8GB
1) Windows Update updates Windows, Office, other Microsoft programs, AND hardware device drivers -- just like Software Update and respective Apple software. So what's your problem?
2) Disk Defrag is built into Windows. Memory defrag? WTF? Mail and Contacts are built-in with Windows. IE8 is a sucky browser for power users, but it works just fine for everyday users. My parents use it just fine (they're 59 and 60). Malware detection is present natively in Windows 7 with Windows Defender.
I'll spot you the antivirus, but Microsoft provides their AV software for free:
http://www.microsoft.com/security_Essentials/
Don't quit your day job
Windows Update worked for %30 of my software and took forever. Because of the instability one had to update by parts, restart numerous times, and every week there was a freaking update. Factor into that the other 70% of software which had their own separate updates, each happening very often and you have a situation where you spend a considerable time every day updating and restarting.
With a Mac all of that is gone. Updating works for 80% of my software (because Apple has the best in class in what I need almost always), it happens completely in the background and only occasionally (a few times a year) asks you to restart, which takes 1 minute.
So one has a situation where you spend a couple of hours a week on one OS and a couple of hour a YEAR with the other OS.
That to me is a deal-breaker.
Windows Update worked for %30 of my software and took forever. Because of the instability one had to update by parts, restart numerous times, and every week there was a freaking update. Factor into that the other 70% of software which had their own separate updates, each happening very often and you have a situation where you spend a considerable time every day updating and restarting.
Hi! I've been using the final version of Windows 7 for several weeks now together with Office 2007 and Visual Studio and Windows Update worked for me each and every time quite reliably. Are you sure that you used Windows recently? Even updates which require a restart will usually just wait until you shutdown the computer. This has actually been the case for a couple of years, even the XP updater got revamped with a service pack. For your information, with Security Essentials there's even now a daily update (signatures).
So what's your point? Playing the anecdotal evidence game?
Tack on anti-virus and anti-malware software and you'll lose anywhere between 5 to 20% of your system performance. Then over time your registry becomes bloated and slows down lookups that all apps do and so on. Whatever edge Windows 7 had at the beginning is soon gone after a month of use.
Hi! Macs are overprized PCs with an insecure operating system for fashion divas with an inferiority complex who define themselves through the computer they own. Geez, I love making those blanket statements, too!
Hi! Macs are overprized PCs with an insecure operating system for fashion diva's with an inferiority complex who define themselves through the computer they own. Geez, I love making those blanket statements, too!
Good for you.