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

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

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Post by Alex_V_King »

logicallee wrote: post #20

how is the gpu - anyone test it with anything that uses it moderately/heavily? how is it at driving external displays? (How many did you use, and what resolution)? Is scrolling, hd video, etc smooth? I ask because out of the specs the gpu seems integrated and quite low-power (for the resolution it runs at.)

Hi, I typically run my MacBook connected to a 1200p monitor, and it behaves great. I've run all sorts of video content on the computer, up to 4K, and it plays it fine. Scrolling is smooth, though occasionally it'll hiccup here or there. Generally, I'm quite impressed with the performance. My review on the website goes into some more detail about day to day usage, if you're curious.

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

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Post by anonymfus »

acdha wrote: post #46
anonymfus wrote: post #43

>Little design touches have really improved the way things look, such as the switch to circular account pictures on the login screen This is the thing I and many other Windows users hate with passion, see rants like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/35zsgk/excuse... https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-sug... https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-... https:…

Finding random people on the internet to complain about change is as hard as finding grains of sand at the beach. The real question is what percentage of users will actually even notice a week after release, much less actually be inconvenienced in some measurable way.

The links were provided because these discussions contains arguments (good and bad), it was not about quantification.

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

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Post by logicallee »

Alex_V_King wrote: post #51
logicallee wrote: post #20

how is the gpu - anyone test it with anything that uses it moderately/heavily? how is it at driving external displays? (How many did you use, and what resolution)? Is scrolling, hd video, etc smooth? I ask because out of the specs the gpu seems integrated and quite low-power (for the resolution it runs at.)

Hi, I typically run my MacBook connected to a 1200p monitor, and it behaves great. I've run all sorts of video content on the computer, up to 4K, and it plays it fine. Scrolling is smooth, though occasionally it'll hiccup here or there. Generally, I'm quite impressed with the performance. My review on the website goes into some more detail about day to day usage, if you're curious.

thanks! what kind of content/load would it hiccup on?

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

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

RexRollman wrote: post #37
pmelendez wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Touch screen on a laptop. Yuck.

Yeah, who wants a touch screen on a laptop that converts into a tablet? That's just crazy. Man, fuck those people for adding functionality that I don't even have to use in laptop mode, but which is essential in tablet mode.

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

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Post by driverdan »

I find it funny that Windows 10 runs well on a MacBook yet it's terrible on my gaming desktop. Color profiles refuse to work, there's no way to prevent auto updates, auto updates completely reinstall the whole OS which can take 30+ min and reboots the computer without asking, video drivers break on every update, games are far less stable than with 8.1. To top all that off it seems to be stuck in some kind of update loop where it reinstalls the OS every night.

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

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

FreakyT wrote: post #50
edandersen wrote: post #17

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.

Completely disagree -- the Apple trackpad drivers on windows are awful, and on a laptop, most of your time will probably be spent using a trackpad. Trackpad++, which the author of the article mentions, can help, but it's a horrible program for the following reasons: 1. The developer requires that you put windows into "test mode" (creating a non-removable desktop watermark) to install it at all, apparently to get arou…

Apple's windows trackpad drivers are indeed not that great, but I haven't seen a windows laptop yet that can provide a better trackpad experience in spite of the bad drivers.

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

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Post by xyby »

kasabali wrote: post #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…

Hmm.. what do I have to do to experience those performance problems? I use Mint and Debian on my machines and I never have any problems. Nothing ever stutters or lags or whatever.

I mainly use Firefox, the Terminal, Gimp and Libre Office. No performance problems whatsoever. And I have pretty old machines. An over 5 years old lenovo laptop and a similarely old desktop machine.

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

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

junto wrote: post #2

I'm now tempted to buy a Macbook Pro so I can install Windows 10!

You'd be better off with a Surface Pro or something from Lenovo in my opinion. Macs are crippled for Windows since Apple can't be bothered to provide proper drivers. They keyboard is also all out of place and mislabeled for Windows and there's no docking station.

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

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Post by Quppa »

anonymfus wrote: post #43

>Little design touches have really improved the way things look, such as the switch to circular account pictures on the login screen This is the thing I and many other Windows users hate with passion, see rants like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/35zsgk/excuse... https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-sug... https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-... https:…

The author described Windows 10 as 'kind of gorgeous', which was somewhat surprising. Until now the most generous thing I've heard someone say is that it's not finished. (Seriously, though, the UI is very unpolished at this stage, even for Windows. I wouldn't be concerned if not for the fact that RTM is only a few months away.)
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