The Leopard Report: Slower than Windows XP?
April 14th, 2008The other day, I read an article in Daniel Knight’s usually excellent LowEndMac site, in which he interviews musician and artist Scott Hansen, a devoted Mac user who is willing to overlook alleged performance limitations with Mac OS X because he still thinks it’s far, far better.
So what performance limitations are we talking about? Well, according to Knight, Hansen has benchmarked Photoshop on a fully decked out system running Windows XP and Mac OS X, and found the former is measurably faster. However, he still reports that Mac OS X runs far more reliably.
According to Knight, Hansen’s “conclusions are sure to disappoint some Mac partisans.”
I’m disappointed, all right, but not in the subject’s conclusions, such as they are. I’m more upset by the lack of journalism Knight exhibits in writing this article. Whenever you publish something about benchmarks, it’s always a good idea to be as specific about the methodology as possible, particularly when the test results seem at odds with other published reports.
