stefan1968 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I've always been a windows user and really am not someone who is so gaga over os x that I am forsaking windows. I like them both. On my new system - I built it ground up to be a hackintosh -- I have enabled it so that I can boot from one of two drives - one is OS X the other is XP pro. They are completely separate from each other - not a dual partition, or anything else. Both the OS X (10.5.6) and XP pro (sp3) are fresh installs and both are working 100%. system - ep45-ds3l MB q6600 OC @ 3.0 Ghz 4 gigs ram sata 250 HD 8500 gt video card I ran GEEKBENCH (32 bit) on both OS's to see what how they would compare. Hackintosh - 5920 Win XP - 5042 Bottom line: Across the board, the hackintosh numbers were better than the XP Pro numbers This is about as purely OS centric a test as is possible; all the components are the same. It's the same system. As a windows user, I have to admit a bit of chagrin. GUI experience, user satisfaction, etc. aside - it would seem that OS X is, in fact, a better OS. here's a link to the tests profiles for anyone that is interested... http://browse.geekbench.ca/user/stefan18901/profile Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143122-conclusive-answer-to-the-question-what-os-is-better/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 You should do some 'real world' things on each OS instead like encoding a video or something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143122-conclusive-answer-to-the-question-what-os-is-better/#findComment-1016254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefan1968 Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 I think I will try to do an After Effects render in both OS's of the same project (i actually have AE on both os's) It'll be interesting to see the results. But 'real world' tests are precisely one of the issues that makes comparing Os's difficult. Software may or may not be optimized as well as possible - giving the OS a good or bad name. Nuendo and Avid, for instance, run better on a PC than on a Mac. Some software also is not as well coded as it could be. For instance - Final Cut Pro is not optimized maximally . While it does utilize multi-cores, it won't max them out when rendering something. This is particularly annoying when you have to wait a couple minutes (or more) on something that could be going faster. After Effects on OSX is properly optimized (given the chance, it will peg those cores at 100% when renderng) In doing the test, I was basically trying to eliminate as many variables as possible (software variations, encoder variations, etc) and test the two OS's as purely as possible. I also did 32 bit tests because XP is not a 64 bit system. one potential issue in test accuracy is the fact that XP doesn't see all 4 gigs of Ram. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143122-conclusive-answer-to-the-question-what-os-is-better/#findComment-1016436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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