Internet Browsing: Mac vs PC [Again!]
Can anyone give us some link to some serious comparison on how the platforms do against each other for Web Browsing, JAVA speed, ActiveX etc. I have both Mac and PC at home and the PC Used to be my preferred choice when browsing around cyber space. In fact the PC left my old 'G3 the dust, just felt so much snappier and faster.
However, I'm not sure this is the case anymore. Yes, the PC may have the edge over the Mac but I don't feel the same amount of gap between them. Where can I find some statistics to backup this feeling of mine? Or am I just plain wrong here?
However, I'm not sure this is the case anymore. Yes, the PC may have the edge over the Mac but I don't feel the same amount of gap between them. Where can I find some statistics to backup this feeling of mine? Or am I just plain wrong here?
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Maybe you could?
<strong>In my experience/opinion there is no comparison. The PC is faster browsing the internet. No question about it, but it comes down to explorer being built into the os instead of sitting on top of it. My fiance bought a new iMac 800/superdrive and won't even use it because browsing is too slow compared to our pc. So I had to buy a router so she could browse "faster". Now I am the only one who uses the Mac.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why are you complaining? You have the imac to yourself now!
I was using some PIIIs (700ish mhz) at school for browsing today and i can say with quite a bit of confidance that my 333 imac running chimera and 10.2 is a faster browsing experience. Than again high school computers aren't the best machine to judge by seeing howas students mess them up all the time.
Martin Jungowski has done the best review/benchmark I have yet seen which should put lots of doubts to rest. Furthermore, WinXP by default is not optimized for broadband. (See <a href="http://www.tweakhound.com/supertweaks8.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tweakhound.com/supertweaks8.htm</a> and <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dslreports.com/</a> .)
Anyway, Martin's review is at <a href="http://www.ocparadise.de/" target="_blank">http://www.ocparadise.de/</a> where he compared the following:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1.6 (Mac OS 9)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)
Mozilla 1.1 (Mac OS X; Mac OS 9; Windows XP)
Chimara 0.5 (Mac OS X)
iCab 2.8 (Mac OS X; Mac OS 9)
Omniweb 4.1.1b (Mac OS X)
Opera 6.0b1 (Mac OS X)
His conclusion? Mozilla 1.1 for Windows had the best overall score. I personally use Mozilla 1.1 as well (on XP, W2K, and OS X 10.2).
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Why are you complaining? You have the imac to yourself now!
I was using some PIIIs (700ish mhz) at school for browsing today and i can say with quite a bit of confidance that my 333 imac running chimera and 10.2 is a faster browsing experience. Than again high school computers aren't the best machine to judge by seeing howas students mess them up all the time.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No complaining here. More like bragging!!
I am so glad to see how well Mozilla did. I use it on my Mac and PC. It is insanely fast on both. It is faster on my PC but then my PC is 1300 mhz and my Mac is 500 mhz ( and a laptop to boot)
My Mac G4@500 with Mac OS 10.2.1 is roughly a second behind my PC when rendering identical web pages. Usually no more than 2 second behind and again that is on a laptop with fewer mhz and over airport as well.
Nick
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My Mac G4@500 with Mac OS 10.2.1 is roughly a second behind my PC when rendering identical web pages. Usually no more than 2 second behind and again that is on a laptop with fewer mhz and over airport as well.
Nick</strong><hr></blockquote>
Airport should make absolutely no difference unless you're on a line that's obnixously fast (like OC-3 or something). Most broadband connections top out at 2mb/s while Airport can get 11mb/s. You would have a hell of a hard time saturating an Airport connection.
Nevertheless, he certainly did a lot of work--I wonder if he will keep it updated?