Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg69971] Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
- From: Urijah Kaplan <uak at sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Why don't you try the built in benchmarking program (Utilities`Benchmark`)? Compare your performance to some others in the built in database. You might also want to check the different benchmarks here <http://smc.vnet.net/timings50.html> Perhaps you can install Parallels <http://www.parallels.com/> and the Windows version of Mathematica? Or set up a dual boot system? --Urijah Blackadder 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. >