Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 11:29 UTC
Phoronix compared the performance figures of Mac OS X 10.5.5 with those of Ubuntu 8.10. They conclude: "Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard had strong performance leads over Canonical's Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex in the OpenGL performance with the integrated Intel graphics, disk benchmarking, and SQLite database in particular. Ubuntu on the other hand was leading in the compilation and BYTE Unix Benchmark. In the audio/video encoding and PHP XML tests the margins were smaller and no definitive leader had emerged. With the Java environment, Sunflow and Bork were faster in Mac OS X, but the Intrepid Ibex in SciMark 2 attacked the Leopard. These results though were all from an Apple Mac Mini."
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I don't see why it would be such a bad idea to perform a benchmark like this on the Mac Mini.
After all, it's supposed to be plenty fast enough to run both OSes on, so as long as you're doing an apples to apples comparison, it can be on as powerful (or as crippled) hardware as one likes, right?
And as always, Apple has the advantage of a 'home game' (since they own the Mac platform, they can optimize for it)