Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark
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> I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. It's
> a perfectly legitimate question to want to know if one thing
> performs better than another, and if so, in what areas, and by how
> much. Human senses are inaccurate to judge things such as this at
> times, especially if differences are minute, and many factors
> affect it. A benchmark is more precise. There IS a benchmark
> cross-platform between Mac and PC. So why not Windows and Linux?
> That was not a very helpful answer at all. It's as bad as RTFM.
what is the benchmark between mac and pc ? the only
one i could possibly think of is comparing photoshop results
which to me is a worthless benchmark(for my needs anyways).
i don't read magazines anymore so maybe they have come up
with something else..the ziff davis benchmark series was a joke
too. i remember reading about vendors who would optimize drivers
just so it would run those benchmarks faster.
i don't use gnome or kde so i dont know how much of
a performance hit you take with them. but on my systems
the only thing i need high performance for is 3D(unreal
tournament), and video encoding(Divx 4). for everday
apps today's cpus are more then powerful enough(or should
be) on any OS. i honestly noticed hardly any difference
between going from p3-800 512MB to athlon 1.3G 768MB ram.
(even in unreal tournament). and i don't believe that
changing an OS could affect overall performance by
that much(increasing ram and cpu speed as above). making
it a non issue for me and most others im sure.
i upgraded to a athlon 1.3g soley to do divx 4 video
capture with the hopes i could get more frames out
of it then my p3 but i was wrong ..for everyday
apps i can't tell a diff between my P3-700 256MB
laptop, my P3-733 512MB(ultra 160 scsi) desktop at work
and my 1.3g athlon 768mb at home(performance wise).
nate
(my windowmanager of choice is afterstep with 32
virtual desktops on my 1600x1200 screen)
only 3 more days and my desktop at works hits the
200day uptime milestone! woohoo!#! i love debian.
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