2010 Macbook Air Mac OS X vs. Windows 7 Boot Camp Comparison HD

So far nowhere have I seen a good apples to apples comparison of the speed of the 2010 Macbook Air on Windows vs. Mac OS X. So I loaded up Boot Camp with a base install of Windows 7 Home Premium with normal updates. And compared it to the base install of OS X with normal updates. Both OS's are fairly close in speed for similar operations with a couple of exceptions. Test system is a base $999 2010 Macbook Air 11.6".

Times are:
Mac OS X Boot = 30.2 Seconds
Windows 7 Boot = 37.5 Seconds
Mac OS X Sleep = 0.3 Seconds
Mac OS X Wake = 1.6 Seconds
Windows Sleep = 1.6 Seconds
Windows Wake = 4.1 Seconds
Mac OS X Shutdown = 1.6 Seconds
Windows Shutdown = 5.7 Seconds

Check out Windows 7 Experience Benchmarks of this Macbook Air.
http://www.seanfurukawa.com/?p=154

My Macbook Air Impressions
http://www.seanfurukawa.com/?p=161

3D Mark 06 Results
http://www.seanfurukawa.com/?p=180

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Apple
• Macbook Air
• 2010 Macbook Air
• Macbook Air 11.6
• OS X
• Windows 7
• Boot Camp

[jack390]

it looked like a macbook pro in the shadow xD

[ai42]

@jack390 Good eye.  Actually I have no idea how you gleamed that.

[bmw2go11]

does aero work in windows?

[ai42]

@bmw2go11 Yes once the drivers are installed no problems.

[pkerry12]

there is something wrong with your macbook air mate because I can boot the new macbook air in 14 seconds.

[ai42]

@pkerry12 Apparently there is some sort of SSD caching going on. When I made this video it was maybe the 3 or 4th boot up. Apparently after several boots (not sure how many) Mac OS X boot times drop dramatically into the 15 second range. I did a second cold boot video which shows this.

[GX1XD1PD]

It takes longer to boot up and everything else for windows because its running windows over osx. Unlike with a real PC where you can actually divide a hdd or have two it more and have different os installed to it/them and run smoother than your Mac

[memoivoila]

WOW That ssd is fast...

[MrBrutus101]

@gadgetboyash Nothing? How come you guys still have crappy games and we can't fully customize that closet platform?

[MrBrutus101]

@GX1XD1PD And boot time is irrelevant since I rarely boot my laptop. Perhaps you have to boot your OSX all the time.

[monty12341234]

@GX1XD1PD Your wrong, that is Partitioning the Hard Disk Booting windows AS NORMAL, iv emulated Windows and it sucks, me mac users can now run windows NATIVELY, Know this stuff before commenting.

[creativeprojects720]

this is a stupid video. who cares about the boot up times.

[Th33M33]

@GX1XD1PD dude the guy edited the vid. its two portions, not a VM, so u use all of the hardware u have. and u can customize the size of both partions (os x and windows) in disk utility in a sec.

[TaxConsumption]

Sounds like a PS2 when it starts up. And the reason WHY Mac is faster than Windows is because it has less shit to compute.

[1234magicman4321]

@MrCarmani12 that's all I learned from this video...

[MrYousafBajwa]

@GX1XD1PD no...windows is installed on a separate partition not through a virtual machine

[gadgetboyash]

@TheRedLuigi Sorry I meant in terms of startup speed should of been more clearer.