• Looking for unbiased Mac vs. Pc benchmarks
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[QUOTE=Sumtoxx;21973280]I [B]swear[/B] I'm not a fanboy of either group, or flaming either. I'm assuming you're wanting to buy one or the other, so I'll post as such. Macs have 5 games. Or at least 80% of the mac market can't run the newer games that are coming out for them. So if you enjoy games, don't go this route. I own both a macbook and a home-built PC and must say, the PC is tenfold better. More open source software, easier compatibility, and everything. Literally every mac app has a counterpart for windows. Still, if you aren't trying to win any races or get the best bang for your buck. Go with a mac then, they're pretty and they have very nice plug n' play. Just don't expect miracles or anything near the experience you get on a windows machine.[/QUOTE] in terms of open source, windows does not win at all. neither does mac. we know who wins here :smug: most of the games that come out for the PC aren't on mac (duh) so there won't be many benchmarks unless they're horrible old games EDIT: but now that I think of it, COD4 did run smooth on my imac, and it's a 2.4GHz c2d with a hd2400. settings on medium @ 1680 x 1050
[QUOTE=sbradford26;21972268][url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/3726/quick-look-mac-os-x-portal-performance[/url] Just one on portal.[/QUOTE] They are playing on a resolution almost nobody would play on. simple 1080P would be better. I suppose at that resolution they are using that is not a big difference.
[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749064%28WS.10%29.aspx[/url] 'Installing Windows to an EFI-Based Computer' [editline]06:07PM[/editline] That said, it's kind of a pain in the ass, but hey. How many computers use EFI.
[QUOTE=Dr Egg;21965524]At any rate the available Source Steam games apparently perform worse under OS X than Windows [editline]07:37PM[/editline] But as for stuff like boot time it seems to be vastly superior. I know there are PC's out there where the BIOS still checks for a floppy drive at boot, slowing everything down. Since Apple know exactly what hardware each build of an OS is going to use, they can skip all that crap.[/QUOTE] Macs don't even use a bios system, they use EFI.
I wonder how complicated overclocking will be on an EFI mobo
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;22000991]I wonder how complicated overclocking will be on an EFI mobo[/QUOTE] Much easier. It would be comparable to software overclocking.
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