PeteUD Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Has anyone noticed a general slowdown in OSX after installing XP? Boot up is definitely slower and it seems like apps bounce more on launch than usual. Or am I on crack? Does anyone have a stock 2GHz MBP w/ 1GB RAM that they've benchmarked either with XBench, GeekBench or Cinebench I'd like to have compare benchmarks pre- and post-XP install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustus Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Not that I've noticed but then I only had the thing for a day before I did it. Mines a 1.83ghz though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathChill Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 You are definitely insane. Mac OS X could give a {censored} less what else you have installed and Windows cannot interact with OS X at all anyway (not counting MacDrive) so it's impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteUD Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 It's the crack. I benchmarked it using Xbench 1.2 and it's running inline with the rest of the stock 2GHz machines (~55 overall w/ beam sync on). So nothing to worry about. However boot up is slower esp if you restart. I think when you restart and go through the boot selection RAM is dumped that previously wouldn't. I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcreek Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 yeah my crack is spiked this week, i keep getting problems with time, i went to bed last night and woke up the morning before. and i swear it took 3 hours to drink a cup of tea this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmitchx Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 My OS X is FLYING as fast as ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
profetes Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 My too! But since you've probably did a back up copy and put it again in your internal drive, sth could have gone wrong then...I had a problem with my finder, it was going very, very slow but I solved it dumping finder preferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Nightmare Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 It may slow down for a SECOND when Spotlight is first indexing the files, but other than that it should be fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MowgliBook Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 I think that spotlight doesn't index FAT or NTFS disks. You sould use Onyx to optimise your installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Nightmare Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 You know, I think you could be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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