OS X vs XP on a MacBook Pro

The good folks at Bare Feats love them some benchmarking, so I am surprised it took them so long to compare the performance of Windows XP versus OS X on a MacBook Pro. They took a look at how applications that are available on both OSs (and are Universal) ran on the MacBook Pro.

The results? XP wins when running games (for the most part) while everything else goes to OS X. They did compare some apps running in Rosetta to the same apps running natively on XP, and XP blew OS X out of the water, as shown by the graph above (of course OS X running on a PowerPC would also blow Rosetta out of the water).

[via Paul Thurrot's Internet Nexus]

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The good folks at Bare Feats love them some benchmarking, so I am surprised it took them so long to compare the performance of Windows XP...

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jotefa

Time in seconds -- Shorter bar means faster
Ahh, now I see Thanks for pointing that out ;-)

April 13 2006 at 4:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jacques Lema

What about wine? Anyone been able to run photoshop in wine? It used to run well on linux (PhotoShop 6 and 7 at that time).

April 13 2006 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wry Cooter

It also assumes you have CS2 for XP or Vista.

I did have illustrator on my Windows Laptop at one point. I always applauded Adobe for keeping the interface the same across platforms, which also meant, Adobe products were some of the most mac like programs on Windows.

April 13 2006 at 12:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

The most amazing thing about this benchmark is that someone actually spent time on rosetta benchmarking.

April 13 2006 at 12:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Goobimama

I guess the gaming performance in both cases will be better on the iMac than on the Macbook Pro (mobility radeon)...

April 13 2006 at 7:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tommy

I got a little confused when i first saw the graph but when i have read the article it is kind of logic that photoshop is faster then when it needs to be emulated by rosetta

April 13 2006 at 7:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply