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Speed of Apple Intel dev systems impress developers
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:56 am
by saturn
"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
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:12 pm
by Psyche911
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.
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:55 pm
by Canis
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.
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:22 pm
by saturn
goddamnit, it's not only about the boottimes....I took a part out of that article.....read it!
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:58 pm
by Canis
So....about the boot times, anyone else have lengthy ones?
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:55 am
by S@M
"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.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:01 pm
by saturn
When the first Intelmac will come out they'll have faster CPUs (probably) and maybe Rosetta will be more tweaked......
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:38 am
by S@M
that was an interesting read sat:)
you must have some quality bookmarks stashed away, AND take the time to read up.
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:51 am
by saturn
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
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:00 am
by zeeko
i have tiger on my 1ghz pb and it runs great.... did you do a clean install canis?
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:10 am
by Canis
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.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:49 am
by Dave
Oh no! If intel macs boot quickly, then mac people won't have any way to benchmark their systems
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:01 pm
by saturn
lol