Re: Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg69978] Re: [mg69925] Performance comparison Mac OSX vs. Windows XP
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:17:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Well, the Core 2 Duos are much faster than the Core Duos. I think your Mac should still be faster than the old Dell (assuming it is a Pentium M) even if it is only a Core Duo instead of a Core 2 Duo. (dumb marketing names are a pain) On 9/27/06, Malte Persike <persike at uni-mainz.de> wrote: > No problem, you were right anyway, too little information. I just > posted an addendum to my first post. > BTW, the MacBook Pro has a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor. This > lead me to expecting that the MacBook should be about 25 % faster > than the Dell machine, not 40 % slower. You may translate that into a > net discrepancy of about 70 % ;) . I'm currently trying to find out > if there is something wrong with my MacBook or Mathematica for Mac. > > Kind regards, Malte > > -- > Am 27.09.2006 um 19:12 schrieb Chris Chiasson: > > > 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/ > -- 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