This benchmark proves one thing: for one task and for graphic stack OS X stands very well on OS X! For optimized 64 bit applications and for heavy load, for sure Linux shine. Though both Linux and Mac are the operating systems for computer devices, Linux is an open-source operating system that can be used on any device, and Mac. It does that to make things easier for you simultaneously enhancing your user experience.
Mac OS does not provide you with the full control of its platform. Launching Firefox and some (more tabs) make all Leopard experience slow with 1G of RAM! Was slower than Vista for the same things! (really, I have a similar laptop at PM 1.7GHz with 1.5 G RAM compared with C2D 1.83 with 1G) Why is Linux more reliable than Mac OS The answer is simple more control to the user while providing better security. Both of them have fewer applications and games than Windows. I feel OS X that works nice as much I run ITunes with it and I mirror some things on the OS X Leopard’s dock. Both Linux and macOS are Unix-like OS and give access to Unix commands, BASH and other shells. Is sad that the Mac Mini have a less impressive multi-threaded performance as much as Linux have nice algorithms on this side. I work pretty much only with Mac these days, but if you plan on just installing Ubuntu and hardly ever going to use OS X for anything, theres no reason to get. Still if you use memory hungry applications, the feeling become sluggish. The machine seems speedy for the hardware it offers. The advantages are obvious on this machine. Mac Mini is a nice piece of engineering and is clearly tested for OS X. Choose your preferred Linux distribution and download it. Ok it’s not on by default on Ubuntu, and could worsen the benches, but OSX has this feature on by default (quartz) or am i missing something?Īnd quoting the conclusion “Moving past the graphics benchmarks…” Download a set of Linux virtual machines from the main installation Assistant Menu. That’s roughly the difference i have here (depending of the game) between Windows and Ubuntu on a 8800GTS.Īlso i’m not sure it’s totally fair to disable compiz. I don’t know which OS would win, but i suppose that on the hardware it’s meant to be run, the differences would be still between 5-15 fps but on a base of 60 to 90 fps. But we certainly can’t say that Urban Terror, thus OpenGL, is 400% faster on OSX than Ubuntu Their conclusions are totally flawed.
Having a 4-12 fps difference on a game that is crawling like hell could be due to a lot of things. Those bench should have been discarded as invalid.
It only tells us that you can’t play those games, ie: they don’t work properly on this machine, with either OS. Well the 3d benchmark here doesn’t mean much, doing comparisons with a performance of about 10fps.