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How fast is a macbook (2GB/Core 2 duo) compared with other laptops?
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<blockquote data-quote="SweetCosmicPope" data-source="post: 1027478" data-attributes="member: 135923"><p>I agree with pigoo3.</p><p></p><p>There are a few tidbits we can help you with, though. Windows Vista is a notorious resources hog. I have it on two PCs, and they run fine, but they have 4 gigs of ram in them. I wouldn't really touch vista with less than 3, but some do. Now, with windows 7, they've scaled it back down just about on par with OSX. I believe they both take about a gig of resources.</p><p></p><p>Now, startup and shutdown times are a massive increase from vista to OSX (don't know about win7). Both of our PCs, which are fast and well maintained, take a very long time (see a minute or two) to get booted up, and it takes about 45 seconds to come out of sleep on our laptop and about 30 seconds on the desktop. Our macbook pro takes about 2 seconds to come out of sleep, and about 10 seconds to boot up.</p><p></p><p>Now, your computing habits can have a big impact on how well your windows machine runs. Out of the box there are usually all sorts of preinstalled extras running in the background hogging even more resources, and through surfing you can pick up spyware and such that take up even more, bogging down your processing speed. These things can be taken care of, but they're a little more difficult, and most casual users wouldn't even know how to get rid of them in the first place.</p><p></p><p>I would say, generally speaking, a vista PC with similar specs as a mac is going to be slower, but it does depend on the user. Any PC has the potential to blow a mac out of the water, just like any mac has the potential to crash and burn like a PC. Just depends on who's using it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SweetCosmicPope, post: 1027478, member: 135923"] I agree with pigoo3. There are a few tidbits we can help you with, though. Windows Vista is a notorious resources hog. I have it on two PCs, and they run fine, but they have 4 gigs of ram in them. I wouldn't really touch vista with less than 3, but some do. Now, with windows 7, they've scaled it back down just about on par with OSX. I believe they both take about a gig of resources. Now, startup and shutdown times are a massive increase from vista to OSX (don't know about win7). Both of our PCs, which are fast and well maintained, take a very long time (see a minute or two) to get booted up, and it takes about 45 seconds to come out of sleep on our laptop and about 30 seconds on the desktop. Our macbook pro takes about 2 seconds to come out of sleep, and about 10 seconds to boot up. Now, your computing habits can have a big impact on how well your windows machine runs. Out of the box there are usually all sorts of preinstalled extras running in the background hogging even more resources, and through surfing you can pick up spyware and such that take up even more, bogging down your processing speed. These things can be taken care of, but they're a little more difficult, and most casual users wouldn't even know how to get rid of them in the first place. I would say, generally speaking, a vista PC with similar specs as a mac is going to be slower, but it does depend on the user. Any PC has the potential to blow a mac out of the water, just like any mac has the potential to crash and burn like a PC. Just depends on who's using it. [/QUOTE]
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