Speed of Apple Intel dev systems impress developers

Post by **saturn** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:56 am

"The systems started shipping to Mac OS X developers three weeks ago, each equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz front-side bus, 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900."

"It's fast," said one developer source of Mac OS X running on Intel's Pentium processors. "Faster than [Mac OS X] on my Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5." In addition to booting Windows XP at blazing speeds, the included version of Mac OS X for Intel takes "as little as 10 seconds" to boot to the Desktop from when the Apple logo first displays on screen

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1175

sounds promising

Post by **Psyche911** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:12 pm

10 seconds from when the Apple logo displays on screen on a 3.6GHz machine? My girlfriends AlPB I swear takes less than that, and it's only like 1GHz.

Getting to the Apple takes about 15 seconds though.

Post by **Canis** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:55 pm

I'm gonna buy a DVD burner, back up my system, and reformat it. Ever since moving to 10.4 I've had slow boot times that've irritated me.

Post by **saturn** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:22 pm

goddamnit, it's not only about the boottimes....I took a part out of that article.....read it!

Post by **Canis** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:58 pm

So....about the boot times, anyone else have lengthy ones?

Post by **S@M** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:55 am

"Taking a universal binary and timing its startup in Intel native speed versus its startup when opened via Rosetta results in a slowdown, but not as much as one would think," said another source. "The apps run at about 65 to 70 percent of their normal speed."

However, some PowerPC-native applications realize little to no speed reductions while running under Rosetta. A source told AppleInsider the current PowerPC version of the popular Firefox web browser loads just as fast under Mac OS X Intel as it does on a high-end dual processor Power Mac G5.

If reports are accurate, Mac users have a lot to look forward to in regards to web browsing under Mac OS X for Intel. According to sources, web browsing in general is much faster under Mac OS X for Intel than it is under the shipping version of Mac OS X for PowerPC. Web pages snap to the screen, the same way they do in Internet Explorer running on a new Pentium system, they say.

I cant see Firefox providing a definative arguement for speed - esp when compared with IE, not even used by most mac users.

Post by **saturn** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:01 pm

When the first Intelmac will come out they'll have faster CPUs (probably) and maybe Rosetta will be more tweaked......

Post by **S@M** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:38 am

that was an interesting read sat:)

you must have some quality bookmarks stashed away, AND take the time to read up.

Post by **saturn** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:51 am

heh....I have rss feed bookmarks and it's easy to check the headlines in firefox....I only read articles if I think it's interesting

Post by **zeeko** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:00 am

i have tiger on my 1ghz pb and it runs great.... did you do a clean install canis?

Post by **Canis** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:10 am

No. I did the archive and install. I'm going to wait until I get a DVD burner and then back stuff up before I do a fully clean install.

Post by **Dave** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:49 am

Oh no! If intel macs boot quickly, then mac people won't have any way to benchmark their systems

Post by **saturn** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:01 pm