Anyone here running XP on a dual core Intel Mac?

[aphex]

Just curious how the performance in XP is... Thinking of upgrading from my powerpc mini to a dual core, and wanted to use CS2 in XP until the universal version is released...

 

[halfadder]

The campus comptuer store here has XP running on a 2 GHz iMac and a 1.86 GHz MacBook, both have Intel Core Duo CPUs and ATI X1600 graphics.

Performance is great. Some gamer dudes were playing Doom3 and HL2 and it ran and looked fantastic! I don't think performance is an issue.

Battery life, however, is in the case of the MacBook. The lead tech said that he can get about 3.5 hours of real life battery use from the MacBook when it's running Mac OS X. But under XP SP2 via BootCamp, he was getting less than 2 hours.

 

[spikespiegal]

Why would you expect it to run any different than a dual core Centrino in the first place?

Oh, I forgot. It has the name Apple on it, so it runs faster than Windows.

 

[scottws]

Originally posted by: spikespiegal
Why would you expect it to run any different than a dual core Centrino in the first place?.

Just an FYI, but the Centrino is not a processor. It is a name for a set of technologies, whose goal is reduced power consumption on an Intel system.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: spikespiegal
Why would you expect it to run any different than a dual core Centrino in the first place?

Oh, I forgot. It has the name Apple on it, so it runs faster than Windows.

I wasn't asking if it ran FASTER, i wanted to know if it ran SLOWER.

And as scootws said, why are you talking about centrinos? (which is a technology in laptops, not a processor)

 

[aphex]

Bump!

 

[remagavon]

I'll have extensive benchmarks in a few days, on an iMac 20" core duo (128mb vram), as well as a Mac Mini Core duo. 🙂

 

[Childs]

I have it running on a 20" imac 2Ghz. XP performance is excellent. Gaming (HL2, Q4, BF2) is not that great at the native resolution (1680x1050) with 2X AA, but according to my preliminary benchmarks thats the ATI X1600's fault. CPU speed is about A64 4200+ X2 to A64 4400+ X2 class. It renders Maya 7 in XP on average 15% faster than a Powermac G5 DP 2Ghz in 10.4.5. The dual core Mini running OSX can be faster than a PowerMac Quad in one test which I can't talk about yet. Apple could release a Powermac with 2 Core Duo's at 2Ghz and everyone would absolutely love it. Powermac Conroe's will kick some serious butt.

 

[UlricT]

Originally posted by: remagavon
I'll have extensive benchmarks in a few days, on an iMac 20" core duo (128mb vram), as well as a Mac Mini Core duo. 🙂

What I would really be interested in seeing is benches on programs on the Mac (hopefully with fat bins) and the same program in windows. Even rosetta performance can be compared to native windows apps. (stuff like photoshop)

 

[aphex]

Excellent, looks like this is the news i've been waiting to hear... I didnt want to switch because of CS2's delayed universal update, but if i can just run my XP version on it, i should be set...

Thanks!!

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: UlricT

Originally posted by: remagavon
I'll have extensive benchmarks in a few days, on an iMac 20" core duo (128mb vram), as well as a Mac Mini Core duo. 🙂

What I would really be interested in seeing is benches on programs on the Mac (hopefully with fat bins) and the same program in windows. Even rosetta performance can be compared to native windows apps. (stuff like photoshop)

Ayup, I'm going to get a large NASA image and run a gamut of filters on it to guage performance in PS.

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: Childs
I have it running on a 20" imac 2Ghz. XP performance is excellent. Gaming (HL2, Q4, BF2) is not that great at the native resolution (1680x1050) with 2X AA, but according to my preliminary benchmarks thats the ATI X1600's fault. CPU speed is about A64 4200+ X2 to A64 4400+ X2 class. It renders Maya 7 in XP on average 15% faster than a Powermac G5 DP 2Ghz in 10.4.5. The dual core Mini running OSX can be faster than a PowerMac Quad in one test which I can't talk about yet. Apple could release a Powermac with 2 Core Duo's at 2Ghz and everyone would absolutely love it. Powermac Conroe's will kick some serious butt.

Is the test you can't speak about an apple pro app? 🙂

Also, I believe the x1600 in the iMac is very underclocked, I was able to overclock mine to 500/500 fully stable. You can use ATi Tool to set the clock speeds and check for artifacts, but when I try to use it to 'find max core' or 'find max mem' my whole system locks. It's probably just a bug, as I ran the artifact test at 500/500 for 10 minutes and there were no errors.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: spikespiegal
Why would you expect it to run any different than a dual core Centrino in the first place?

Oh, I forgot. It has the name Apple on it, so it runs faster than Windows.

I wasn't asking if it ran FASTER, i wanted to know if it ran SLOWER.

And as scootws said, why are you talking about centrinos? (which is a technology in laptops, not a processor)

Actually Centrino is a platform; so it's fair to judge against Apple.

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: remagavon

Is the test you can't speak about an apple pro app? 🙂

mwuhahahahahahaha

Also, I believe the x1600 in the iMac is very underclocked, I was able to overclock mine to 500/500 fully stable. You can use ATi Tool to set the clock speeds and check for artifacts, but when I try to use it to 'find max core' or 'find max mem' my whole system locks. It's probably just a bug, as I ran the artifact test at 500/500 for 10 minutes and there were no errors.

I didn't even think to try that. I'll give it a shot.