2006-12-17 17:40:24 · 3 answers · asked by mawopi 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I just purchased a dual core twin processor mac. (four cores total). I am typing this while running windows XP on the mac natively. I.E. I booted into windows XP and am running only windows XP. It seems OK.
Booting into Mac OSX is much faster than when booting windows XP. They both seem pretty snappy once up and running.
The Mac OSX is a 64bit Operating system and I only have the 32bit version of windows XP installed so I believe there is some scaling back of the processors that has to happen in the bios when I run windows XP.
2006-12-17 17:48:11 · answer #1 · answered by zengoldabil 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the hardware. If the systems are identical you'll probably be better off running OS X but only if you're fine not being able to run the majority of software available for computers today. Don't plan on playing very many computer games on a Mac either.
2006-12-17 17:49:01 · answer #2 · answered by Gwen K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always found Mac machines to run slower than comparably configured Windows machines.
2006-12-17 17:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by cs_gmlynarczyk 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋