Video race between iMac G5 and Core Duo iMac booting
I found this cool video on YouTube via Digg this morning. They simultaneously boot an iMac G5 and a new Core Duo iMac to see which is faster at booting. The Core Duo, of course, leaves the G5 flailing in the dust, but I, along with many of the commenters on Digg, am suspicious of the state of that iMac G5. It really shouldn't hang on boot for as long as it does. During the video, one of the guys says that the iMac G5 had been through its initial boot and then was immediately shut down, so I wonder if they forced it to shut down and some of the disk check processes are running and slowing things up.
In any case, despite all these academic arguments, if you watch the video and you've ever seen an iMac G5 boot before, you're still going to realize that the Core Duo is absolutely smokingly fast.
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sterling said 9:43AM on 1-17-2006
My PowerBook boots faster than the iMac G5 they had. Something was definitely not right in their setup.
You are right though, the Intel iMac is very fast.
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yoharryo said 9:50AM on 1-17-2006
the intel imac is fast, but not blazing fast. My year old iMac G5 is slightly slower, but not overly at startup, sure is a hell of a lot faster than the G5 there.
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Daniel D said 10:10AM on 1-17-2006
They were talking about the dual core when they said it had been shut down. They said they set it up and then shut it down straight away. Or so I think.
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Apoco-Lips said 10:46AM on 1-17-2006
Something defo wrong with that G5.
The intel boots faster, albeit only 5-10 seconds faster than my ibook G4 1.33.
With Leopard and Vista theyre gonna be aiming for 'instant on' arent they?
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Bellamy Budiman said 11:08AM on 1-17-2006
Even my 2GHz iMac doesn't boot that long. Something's gone wrong with it. The Intel version is fast, though.
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teece said 11:24AM on 1-17-2006
My iMac G5 has booted slowly since I installed 10.4.3. I've heard a few others complain of this.
I dunno why.
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Robin said 12:05PM on 1-17-2006
My Mac Mini boots up in about 12 seconds, so it beats them both
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fra said 12:19PM on 1-17-2006
The PPC iMac must have been mucked with in some way, because my mac mini with its 256MB/1.25GHz boots faster than the G5.
Either way, the Intel mac boots faster.
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Wheels said 12:27PM on 1-17-2006
Monty is faster booting than the G5 @ 400Mhz. WTF?
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fra said 12:49PM on 1-17-2006
I done my own test: I could only go as far as my login screen, since the G5 and the CD didn't have one. But even when clicked on my username, entered the wrong password, then entered the right one, then hit the enter key it only took 1min 18secs for my own full boot, and even then I must have been a few milisecs slow when pressing the spilt option on my phone. Since I'm not in the mood for doing Math, I'll write all my times from the second I pressed the power switch on my mini.
PS: I did have a hacked Apple screen... don't know HOW that effects the test at all.
From power on:
------------- to the Apple boot screen : 19.8 seconds
------------- OSX boot screen : 46.5 seconds
------------- Login Screen : 48.5 seconds
so, the OSX boot screen should only take 2seconds or less to start the OSX front end on a faster computer...
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Brian said 4:55PM on 1-17-2006
They were saying that the dual core has been previously booted, IE it wasn't going to go into the 'Welcome' screen that boots the first time you start a new computer running OS X.
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Charles White said 7:20PM on 1-17-2006
Did anybody notice that on the YouTube website, the second video down from the "comparative" intel v G5 boots is them booting up a G5 iMac. It's not an iSight G5 (though you'd think it the same or perhaps faster) but their own video puts the G5 boot time as half of what it is when they pitted it against the intel. I guess the intel is just intimidating.
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Nathan Sweeney said 1:20AM on 1-18-2006
They also have a video of a G4 iMac that boots in under 40 seconds. The intel is quick, but the G5 had something seriously messed up. My 2.0 G5 seems not too off of the core duo, although I'm sure actually running and using applications once boot is over will be a significant difference.
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Jason Anderson said 9:31PM on 1-22-2006
They really should have done it from two brand new machines. This test was not fair. Though I still believe the Intel would have won. The G5 just seemed to be way too slow.
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