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A question that always generates calm and reasonable discussion: What OS do you use? | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 149 comments | Search Discussion
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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Friday August 07 2015, @06:30PM

    by Rich (945) on Friday August 07 2015, @06:30PM (#219651) Journal

    http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core2-Duo-E8400-vs-Intel-Core-i5-5250U [cpuboss.com]

    For those too lazy to click: 6.5 : 6.4.

    That's 8 year old gear vs. what Apple ships today in the MacBook Air. Better have enough of teh snappy for the old gear, if they want to sell the new one, huh?

    I don't notice any big speed differences, by the way. Not nearly enough to even want to change the spinning platter in my MBP for an SSD. If I have to wait for something, it's usually because some remote "cloudy" crap triggers local blocks, has been developed by graduates of "JavaScript for complete retards.", or both. The Quad-2.6-i7 RMBP helps a bit with the latter - but not with the first. Cf. that to the whiners on LKML where they wanted to get kdbus in and Linus measured the overhead to demonstrate what a steaming pile their app stack is.

    I probably could even live with Mavericks, once I swap out Preview and TextEdit for older versions that don't overwrite my files when I e.g. just pull up the gamma a bit. Oh. And work through one of the guides to cut off the widespread phoning home.

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  • (Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Saturday August 08 2015, @09:42AM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Saturday August 08 2015, @09:42AM (#219834) Homepage Journal

    This is supposed to be relevant? Not sure what I was expecting, seeing as how you couldn't see any difference [youtube.com] between an SSD and an HDD either, but whatever. Actual raw data from your link, rather than the meaningless overall "score" you posted:

    In order: Geekbench 32-bit; 64-bit; overall. Passmark overall; single-threaded. Typical power consumption.

    E8400: 2862, 3092, 4792, 2172, 1257 (52.81W)
    5250U: 4964, 5591, 5591, 3658, 1519 (12.19W)

    Not that this means a damn thing, but the 5250U smokes the E8400 in every test while using less than a quarter of the power. Whatever, it's still a comparison between a passively-cooled ultra-low voltage CPU with onboard graphics and an actively-cooled desktop CPU, but don't let reality stop you being a moron, eh? (Pro-tip: mobile Core2 model IDs start with a T)