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Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP

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• Subject: [mg69954] Re: [mg69925] Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:15:28 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200609271005.GAA00253@smc.vnet.net>

It would be relevant to know if your MacBook had a PowerPC chip in it
or an Intel Core/2 Duo/Solo.

On 9/27/06, Blackadder <Malte at t-online.de> wrote:
> Dear NG,
>
> recently I switched from a Dell notebook to a MacBook Pro. We licensed
> Mathematica 5.2.2.0, which is a Universal Binary on Mac OSX. Yesterday,
> a colleague sent me a notebook with some intensive computations and
> asked me to test the speed on my MacBook.
>
> The results were quite surprising and earned me quite a few smirks from
> my fellow coworkers. Here's what I got:
>
>   Dell Latitude 505 (1.6 Ghz, 512 MB RAM): 263.44 secs
>
>   MacBook Pro 17" (2.1 Ghz, 2 GB RAM): 402,18 secs
>
>
> This means that my MacBook is about 35 % slower than a technically
> inferior Windows notebook. Does anybody have experiences with the
> performance of Mathematica on different OSes? Has anybody notices
> similar behavior between the Windows and Mac OS versions? Any hints or
> comments are very welcome.
>
> Kind regards, Malte
>
>
> p.s.: If you are interested in running the Mathematica notebook on your
> Mac, I'm happy to send you a copy by e-mail.
>
>


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• References:
  • Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
    • From: "Blackadder" <Malte@t-online.de>