Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
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Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
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#22"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
Based on how buggy Yosemite is this should really be rephrased as a beta version of Windows runs better than a beta version of MacOS.
Except that Yosemite was released almost a year ago and Win10 is about to be released this year. A buggy OS is different than a Beta OS.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on how buggy Yosemite is this should really be rephrased as a beta version of Windows runs better than a beta version of MacOS.
Except that Yosemite was released almost a year ago and Win10 is about to be released this year. A buggy OS is different than a Beta OS.
Yes 10.10 was released at least a year too early - it really should not be out of beta. I get daily "pizza wheels of death" with 10.10.3 on my Mac Pro. On the same machine I have yet to have Windows 8.1 crash. The hardware is fantastic, the software far less so.
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#24Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
Maybe... Still my Yoga 2 Pro feels and looks better than any Mac laptop I have own or seen. Touch screen is definetely a must-have to me. It is specially useful if you are developing for touch devices.
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#25Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
For me, the only thing holding them back is not being able to switch between discrete and integrated graphics on Windows.
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#26I was on a Youtube binge last night watching Windows 10 videos. It looks really impressive. Automatically switching between tablet and desktop mode when you dock appears to actually work - perhaps it is possible to make a UI that works for both use cases! The Cortana feature is slick and I'm tempted to cancel my Amazon Echo order and get a Surface (which has a free Windows 10 upgrade). I was never a fan of the OSX Do…
> "possible to make a UI that works for both use cases!"
That was what Windows 8/8.1 tried to do, but apparently people didn't like at all ( never understood that, to me is a fine OS)
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#27Obviously 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.
Why is this down voted to oblivion? It is the hard truth, albeit he meant to say Unix not Linux. OSX is merely an "okay" OS. The points in the article about Mission Control being slow and laggy are completely true in my experience (2014 MBPr 16GB 512GB). Windows is architecturally a better OS than OSX.
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#28"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'm finding Mission Control a bit slow too. The whole Exposé thing was a lot snappier when they still called it that.
That said, in Task View on Windows do the iconified windows still play live content? E.g., under mission control, a video window will continue playing video live in its preview texture. Does this happen on Windows too?
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#29> Here's the real kicker: it's fast. It's smooth. It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on. It's unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn't completely smooth. Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. It's remarkable, and it makes me believe in the 12-inch MacBook more than ever before.
So much this. I really admire how performance of Windows desktop is optimized. I can't compare it with OS X, but when compared to modern Linux DE's (Plasma, Gnome Shell, Cinnamon etc.), Windows desktop still has all the same modern bells and whistles (hw acceleration, effects etc.) yet it blows them out of water when it cames to both smoothness and resource consumption.
I say I admire the effort on optimization, because things weren't that good even on Windows 7. I remember constantly having slight stuttering here and there on Windows 7 but Windows 8+ is completely smooth on the very same machine (which is now getting close to its 6th year), and this anectode shows that they must have taken the optimization seriously.
P.S: I'm not complaining on Linux DE's, they just have different priorities, and they're good deals considering their price.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
the graphics drivers under Windows are significantly better than on OSX or on Linux
An influence from its gaming heritage? I know that GPU companies definitely spend a lot more effort on improving their Windows drivers than on other OSs, because of gamers.