Battle: Ubuntu 11.04 vs Windows 8 Developer Preview
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It's about farking time FFS
W7 is fast also and boots up in my Dell i7 in 45 seconds.
Ubuntu 11.04 however boots up on the i7 in 33 seconds and that is in addition to going through the GRUB bootloader!....
Of course those Dell laptops in the clip have a slower CPU.
And don't forget to read the comments below your YouTube clip on W8 .....there will be more comments posted.....
Note at 1:15 - 1:30 of clip:
W8.......3% CPU ~480 MB RAM usage and shows a Single Core!
Ubuntu..4%-16% CPU ~174 MB RAM usage but shows a Dual Core??
Note Ubuntu runs leaner using less RAM.
Thought they were identical PCs???
W7 is fast also and boots up in my Dell i7 in 45 seconds.
Ubuntu 11.04 however boots up on the i7 in 33 seconds and that is in addition to going through the GRUB bootloader!....
Of course those Dell laptops in the clip have a slower CPU.
And don't forget to read the comments below your YouTube clip on W8 .....there will be more comments posted.....
Note at 1:15 - 1:30 of clip:
W8.......3% CPU ~480 MB RAM usage and shows a Single Core!
Ubuntu..4%-16% CPU ~174 MB RAM usage but shows a Dual Core??
Note Ubuntu runs leaner using less RAM.
Thought they were identical PCs???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyqkpXzHZmo
Dan, you're right, it is fast.
against Macbook Air on a $450 HP laptop.
I know the laptop because a neighbour asked me to buy him a small laptop the other day.
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/hewlett-packard-hp-pavilion-14-0-laptop-featuring-intel-core-i3-2310m-processor-dv4-4048ca-black-dv4-4048ca/10176378.aspx?path=f63ca6cb8b2ae6b4866fc2bfc7a2e0caen02
Dan, you're right, it is fast.
against Macbook Air on a $450 HP laptop.
I know the laptop because a neighbour asked me to buy him a small laptop the other day.
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/hewlett-packard-hp-pavilion-14-0-laptop-featuring-intel-core-i3-2310m-processor-dv4-4048ca-black-dv4-4048ca/10176378.aspx?path=f63ca6cb8b2ae6b4866fc2bfc7a2e0caen02
WOW!
Didn't think it took that long for Lion to boot up! Thought that OSX, being a Unix/Linux variant non-free distro, it should boot up a bit snappier than that....
Yeah a SSD is blazing fast for fast boot up times.....
Is that what they call it? Well, it`s absolute shit.
I`ll gladly switch to Apple if they`re the same as S.Leopard and Lion now, mixed with Linux.
Personally I think they blew it with this interface.
edit - just read that you can switch to a "normal" desktop if you don`t have a touch enabled device.
Pretty slick...jury is still out, current rig is good for the next 2 years though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3vtrG3pQl4&feature=related
(gorilla glass video in list to right of page https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthrea...ht-I-d-share-my-experience-with-Gorilla-glass)
I`ll gladly switch to Apple if they`re the same as S.Leopard and Lion now, mixed with Linux.
Personally I think they blew it with this interface.
edit - just read that you can switch to a "normal" desktop if you don`t have a touch enabled device.
Pretty slick...jury is still out, current rig is good for the next 2 years though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3vtrG3pQl4&feature=related
(gorilla glass video in list to right of page https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthrea...ht-I-d-share-my-experience-with-Gorilla-glass)
I'm pretty sure the Windows 8 boot was a boot from suspend or hibernate. See http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20109485-75/how-microsoft-sped-up-the-windows-8-boot-process/
I think someone figured out how to do the same thing under Linux, and the boot times were extremely quick. However, the boot from suspend technique has a number of disadvantages, like dead batteries. With people booting Linux in under 5 seconds, I think the consensus of the Linux community is to simply make Linux boot quickly.
Did anyone else notice the memory usage? 480 MB RAM for Windows, 174 MB RAM for Ubuntu. Before applications are loaded.
I not to worry about cheap tricks like boot from suspend.
I think someone figured out how to do the same thing under Linux, and the boot times were extremely quick. However, the boot from suspend technique has a number of disadvantages, like dead batteries. With people booting Linux in under 5 seconds, I think the consensus of the Linux community is to simply make Linux boot quickly.
Did anyone else notice the memory usage? 480 MB RAM for Windows, 174 MB RAM for Ubuntu. Before applications are loaded.
I not to worry about cheap tricks like boot from suspend.
I like the Metro UI new looks always take time to get used to them.
I believe you can also switch to classic mode should you wish
I noted that very impressive spec in post #2!
It shows how efficient Ubuntu runs compared to W8!....
I thought Windows reserved a bunch of memory for disk caching since Vista depending on how much physical memory the machine had.
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