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Snow Leopard vs Windows 7 - Boot Time

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Uploaded by on Apr 23, 2010

A boot speed test, testing Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same laptop.

Mac BookPro Specs:
-2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
-4GB of DDR2 RAM

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  • So, Mac, wanna play some games?

    Oh, wait..

  • I'm not an Apple lover but OSX definitely does boot up faster and is less of a resource hog (ex: clean software uninstallation, fewer kernel-level leak issues). At the same time, a big part of the reason Windows spends so long booting up is due to boot loader loading up a database of drivers. Why does it do this? Because on a Windows machine, one can completely replace the cpu, ethernet card, gpu, at any given time. We can't do that on OSX, so they don't have to enumerate so many device drivers.

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  • mac is much better than windows

  • My win7 boots roughly in 36 seconds

  • Lawl and now i install windows 7 on my macbook and it starts slower then my Apple Snow Leopard. Yeah man nice test. :-)

  • My Windows 7 Ultimate boost faster, it just take for about 15sec.

  • Second reason: Windows maintains better legacy support. That means they can't drop some of the old code which tends to cripple a lot of software companies. While it's not flawless, we can even run Win32 applications from 3.x era on a Windows 7 computer from 3 decades ago. Try doing that OS software made for Apple in the 80s: Lion even dropped PowerPC legacy support outright and that's only half a decade ago.

  • omg my 7 ultimate shut downs and starts up at 5-10 sec

  • @ChannelYouMightLike Well no.

  • @bassl0va I most definitely know lots about computers, OS can't be overloaded by hardware, only software. I'm sorry If I confused you with improper grammar. But indeed you will need either of those to make either one (I am not positive) to run faster if it is overloaded with software, or disk hardware like games... e.g. RCT3(Roller Coaster Tycoon 3)...

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