When you boot an 1987 Mac and a 2011 PC, which boots up faster?
Since recently moving from Windows 7 to OSX Lion, I had a pretty good idea which would win this bout, even when you consider the age.
Watch:
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Now, before everyone gets all bent out of shape and starts arguing about 32-bit vs 16-bit and how sucky netbooks are and how this is really comparing apples and oranges, let’s see how OSX Snow Leopard, Windows 7 and Ubuntu compare:
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[Editor’s Note: I’m not sure why videos like this have embedding turned off, but they do. Watch it here.]
Poor Windows 🙁
Raoul Snyman says
And the winner is…. Ubuntu Linux!
[rant]When you’re talking about operating systems, talk about operating systems! Mac and PC are hardware, not operating systems![/rant]
Matt says
Actually, Mac OS X is an operating system, and because of the OS, that’s what makes it fast. Here the author is referring to a PC operating system, in this case Windows 7. But you’re right, Linux probably is faster than both 🙂
Raoul Snyman says
Actually, Macintosh is a platform, like PC. OS X, as Apple is now calling it, is the operating system. I know what OS X is, I’ve even used it 😉
I still get irritated when people refer to the platform instead of the operating system and ignore the fact that there are other operating systems that work on both platforms mentioned.
Of course Linux can run on both the Macintosh and PC platforms.