Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg69974] Re: [mg69925] Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Maybe I messd that up. What I meant was the IBM chip called Power (don't know what version, 4 or 5 maybe?). On 9/27/06, Malte Persike <persike at uni-mainz.de> wrote: > Dear Chris, > > thanks for the hint. I wasn't aware that Apple ever built a MacBook > Pro with a PowerPC chip. I'll clear that up. > > Regards, Malte. > > -- > Am 27.09.2006 um 14:53 schrieb Chris Chiasson: > > > 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. > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > http://chris.chiasson.name/ > > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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- Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
- From: "Blackadder" <Malte@t-online.de>
- Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP