Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

"Until thorough benchmarking is completed by me or someone else, I think the best way to put it is this: Task View often runs at 60FPS, while Mission Control never runs at 60FPS"

So, it seems that in this case a beta version of Windows works best than MacOS

Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 16, 2015, 10:58 AM UTC

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Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

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Post by usaphp » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:01 AM UTC

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I am sure you had some bad luck when you tested a first retina screen. I've never ran into any scrolling issues and I have both original retina MacBooks 15 & 13"

Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

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Post by woof » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:04 AM UTC

marvel_boy wrote: post #4

"Until thorough benchmarking is completed by me or someone else, I think the best way to put it is this: Task View often runs at 60FPS, while Mission Control never runs at 60FPS" So, it seems that in this case a beta version of Windows works best than MacOS

"runs better"? I'm baffled.

Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

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Post by hrktb » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:09 AM UTC

marvel_boy wrote: post #4

"Until thorough benchmarking is completed by me or someone else, I think the best way to put it is this: Task View often runs at 60FPS, while Mission Control never runs at 60FPS" So, it seems that in this case a beta version of Windows works best than MacOS

I have a hard time understanding the equivalence. Is task view supposed to be representative of all windows programs ? Is Mission Control supposed to be the fastest OSX program ?

I don't use windows So I'll also have to ask, are these programs actually comparable in what they do ?

Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

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Post by stilleto » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:10 AM UTC

Obviously the guys at microsoft with a lot more experience in software development will create a superior product. This shouldn't be a surprise as OS X is merely a mod of components derived from linux.

Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

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Post by sz4kerto » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

hrktb wrote: post #8

marvel_boy wrote: post #4

"Until thorough benchmarking is completed by me or someone else, I think the best way to put it is this: Task View often runs at 60FPS, while Mission Control never runs at 60FPS" So, it seems that in this case a beta version of Windows works best than MacOS

I have a hard time understanding the equivalence. Is task view supposed to be representative of all windows programs ? Is Mission Control supposed to be the fastest OSX program ? I don't use windows So I'll also have to ask, are these programs actually comparable in what they do ?

Yes, Task View and Mission Control are similar. I don't think that this speed comparison is very useful, but in my experience the graphics drivers under Windows are significantly better than on OSX or on Linux. (I run Ubuntu, OSX and Windows 10 on my retina MBP, and desktop graphics performance on Win10 is way better than the rest. By 'desktop graphics performance' I mean window management, scrolling of 2D content in browsers and other apps.)

However, Win 10 runs quite inefficiently on Apple hardware in terms of battery life.

On a side note, I find Win10 as the first Windows that is usable on HiDPI machines.