Test Shows Snow Leopard is Faster Than Win 7

[Sabre]

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Ngo found that Snow Leopard outperformed Windows 7 in nearly all areas except for graphics (likely due to better drivers from Nvidia). Some results are:
- Snow Leopard booted and shut down around six seconds faster than Windows 7.
- Snow Leopard took 149.9 seconds to convert 17 songs from the MP3 format to the AAC format. Windows needed 12 seconds more for the same job.
- Snow Leopard took 444.3 seconds vs. Windows 7's 723 seconds to convert a movie file from the MP4 format into the iPod format while having iTunes converting songs in the background the job (versions of QuickTime were different, however).
- In a battery test, Windows 7 lasted 78 minutes, while Snow Leopard managed to stay on for 111 minutes.
- Windows 7's Cinebench R10 score was 5,777 vs. 5,437 for the OS X.
- Windows 7 in Call of Duty 4 scored 26.3 frames per second while Snow Leopard got only 21.2 fps.

Pretty interesting to read!

[scheherazade]

I wonder if the results would have been closer running the 7-related windows server.

Back when it was XP and server 2003, server 2003 ran *basically everything* faster than XP.

I used sever 2003 for a while at home but since server 2003 had dropped some legacy support, my multimedia stuff had some issues (certain apps would echo sounds, etc), so I went back to XP.
While I used server 2003, I was quite impressed at the speed contrast with XP when running offline apps (like format conversion).
Server 2003 was faster enough that you could 'sense' the difference, you didn't even need benchmarks to notice that shit was quicker (albeit benchmarks showed it too).

Not saying new server is fast, just wondering if it will compare to 7 like its predecessor compared to XP.

-scheherazade

[complacent]

i know that the big limiting factor for windows (of any flavor) is the drivers written (in this case, apple), but i was pleased to see that they at least used the speediest chunk of the HD for each test.

Once drivers improve, I'd like to see the same test run again. I think they're supposed to have updated bootcamp drivers by xmas?