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| Click here to select a new forum. | | A1082 Cinema Display, is price worth it? | Posted by: PB145B on 2018-04-20 03:33:37
I really want to get one of these for my recently acquired Mac Pro 1,1. Which by the way, is one of the coolest machines I have ever owned! I've never seen 10.6 run so fast! I may go up to 10.7 at some point but I'm kinda on the fence about that. I know most people prefer 10.6 but I really like 10.7 a lot.
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-04-22 17:55:04
I've never seen 10.6 run so fast! If you think *thats* fast, try running 10.6 on a MacPro5,1 with two six-core processors! 🙂
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| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2018-04-22 19:52:40
What are you measuring, comparing 10.6 on the Mac Pro 5,1? Is it comparing 10.6 to newer OS releases or to other systems?
Once you have solid state storage, you can only launch TextEdit or list folders in a file so instantly, regardless of what else is in a machine.
This could be different on the Mac Pro specifically, but my experience on 2007 and 2011-era MacBook Pros was that in general, the newer OS releases themselves work faster with what was already in the machine, especially 10.11 which fixed a few long-standing memory leaks I'd been seeing on my machines.
This of course wasn't really measurable in benchmarks, at least the ones I was using. In my experience, measured application performance doing things like producing a render almost never differs from one OS release to another, unless you start talking about major hops, such as 9 to X or 98/Me to XP and 95 to NT4. (This is especially true because suitable benchmarking conditions usually involve a relatively clean OS image and a fresh warm reboot, so benchmarks usually avoid problems with memory leaking or caches filling.)
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-04-22 20:31:10
I was comparing the speed of 10.6 on an MP5,1 to that of a MP3,1 and Mid-2009 MacBook Pro (with SSD). While all generally feel about the same, the 5,1 is noticeably faster at running things like Firefox and other CPU-bound tasks.
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| Posted by: PB145B on 2018-04-23 00:18:19
If you think *thats* fast, try running 10.6 on a MacPro5,1 with two six-core processors! 🙂
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| Posted by: IlikeTech on 2018-04-23 10:33:07
Like System 6 on a 33 meg 040!
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