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Originally Posted by CDKPhil
I think if you wanted to find out what is better for your needs get a Mac and PC of equivalent speed side by side and battle it out. This is the only way to know what is going to work better for you.
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Funny you mention that as I did just that last year when we happened to get a Mac Pro and a PC with identical processors, same video cards (except for the extra bits Apple tacks on) and the same amount of ram. We ran Geekbench on both and, on the PC, both Windows 7 and Fedora 11.
Predictably Linux was out in front but I was surprised that Windows just edged ahead of OSX. Historically I've always thought Windows was fairly inefficient, especially for memory management, so this was a bit of a suprise and certainly a sign of the improvement that Windows 7 represented over XP (and Vista... *shudders*).
Although the OSs were fresh installs and had just been rebooted before the test I don't know what was running on OSX and Windows that could have affected those results and I also noticed that re-running the test would give very similar but slightly different individual results so the whole test isn't very scientific. I also can't remember the version of Mac OS that was on it.
Also worth noting was the prices of the two boxes, from memory the Mac Pro was about $11,500 and the PC was just over $8k. Although Mac prices have come down since then and I do think the current Macbook Pros are good value relative to other premium laptops on the market.
Of course in the test of which case was prettier the Mac won hands down
