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Those of us that use both PC's and Mac's have know for
quite awhile Mac Intel OS is far superior to Microsoft Intel OS. I was convinced
of that when I booted up a PC and a Mac at the same time with both of them
using the Microsoft OS XP, before Vista was on the market, and the Mac, with
Boot Camp installed, booted up faster than the PC.
What I have felt for a long time has now been confirmed by a
comparative review with extensive benchmarks, of Macs and PCs.
Popular Mechanics Verdict: Apple.
Mac: In both the laptop and desktop showdowns, Apple’s computers were the
winners. Oddly, the big difference didn’t come in our user ratings, where we
expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. Our respondents liked the
look and feel of both operating systems but had a slight preference toward OS X.
In our speed trials, however, Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks
such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the
Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both
Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did.
PC: Simply put, Vista proved to be a more sluggish operating system than
Leopard. Our PCs installed some software faster, but in general they were slower
in our time trials. Plus, both PCs showed weaker performance on third-party
benchmarks than the Macs. Our biggest surprise, however, was that PCs were not
the relative bargains we expected them to be. The Asus M51sr costs the same as a
MacBook, while the Gateway One actually costs $300 more than an iMac. That means
for the price of the Gateway you could buy an iMac, boost its hard drive to
match the Gateway’s, purchase a copy of Vista to boot—and still save $100.
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