Windows beats down Mac…again

For years the two major OS’s have been waiting for the day when they could fight it out in the ultimate smack down. Finally that is possible without Mac fanboys whining about how it’s unfair competition with different specs between computers. No more comparing apples to oranges; we can now compare apples to…well, apples. The test is to take an Intel equipped Apple computer and run Win XP natively through boot camp. Then benchmarks can be taken for each OS. Two apps that support Universal mode are the infamous Doom 3 and Bibble Pro 4.7. When Doom ran in Win XP, it got about 30 fps. Mac junkies will complain that Doom 3 was ported over to OS X not by ID, but by Aspyr. That’s beside the point. Well how about Bibble, which converted RAW images in 350 seconds in XP compared to 450 seconds in OS X. Probably the reply I’ve heard most when talking about crappy gaming on Macs, is that their meant for media editing. Let’s see if they are really better. With Photoshop CS2 installed on both operating systems, it takes only 413 seconds for XP to get through every filter applied to a picture. It took OS X 1123 seconds to do the same thing. I know this isn’t exactly a fair comparison because Adobe only has a PPC emulated version of Photoshop, not a Universal mode one. Regardless, maybe Apple needs to focus less on simplicity and more on quality, because ‘simple’ simply doesn’t cut it.

~ by metra.iv on 2006,24 October,2006.