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Dear Phoronix,
OS X Engineers don't care about these benchmarks. They never have. Having OpenGL 4.1 and OpenCL 1.2 optimized throughout their entire OS is what they care about.
Linux can get its pants soiled about these meaningless benchmarks, while having crippled accelerated desktops raving about OpenGL 2.1 future compliance with OpenGL 3.1 in the near future all it wants.
One would think having a fully acceleratd DE whether GNOME or KDE, etc., at OpenGL 3.3, never mind 4.x would be a far greater goal than these pointless benchmarks.
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lol?
Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostDear Phoronix,
OS X Engineers don't care about these benchmarks. They never have. Having OpenGL 4.1 and OpenCL 1.2 optimized throughout their entire OS is what they care about.
Linux can get its pants soiled about these meaningless benchmarks, while having crippled accelerated desktops raving about OpenGL 2.1 future compliance with OpenGL 3.1 in the near future all it wants.
One would think having a fully acceleratd DE whether GNOME or KDE, etc., at OpenGL 3.3, never mind 4.x would be a far greater goal than these pointless benchmarks.
pointless benchmarks? for gaming? what the point you have a better api if almost nothing runs opengl 4.xx and have this garbage fps? same hardware worst performance .. no more no less
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostUnless Mac OS is a lot dumber than we expect, or, if Michael ran all of the tests with the AC unplugged, then I highly doubt your statement is true. It isn't difficult to set up an OS to down-clock everything when running on batt and run at full speed when on AC.
That being said Apple has never had tweaky high performance drivers for their GPUS. They are biased to correctness and accuracy in their drivers.
I find it really hard to believe that Mac would always attempt to save battery life even when plugged in, though the test results are suspiciously bad.
Honestly it would be interesting to see if Michael could run a few tests to confirm my theory. Maybe run his benchmarking program until the battery dies a few times.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostOSX always has way better battery life than windows or linux on the same machine - at least on apple's machines. I don't think they are just downclocking the hardware, i assume they are doing fancy stuff in, for example, the mobo driver and taking advantage of the fact that they can write drivers just for their own hardware rather than trying to get something generic which runs everywhere.
As far as Linux and battery life that is always in flux as the OS and GUIs develop but I would have to say you are right, for Apples target audience Mavericks does way better battery life wise. Windows just plain sucks so no sense in bringing that up.
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Serious bug/regression
We are two days from release now, and there is a serious bug/regression still affecting the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...t/+bug/1295439
Due to this bug it's impossible to import a saved ovpn configuration file.
It's possible to run this file from the command line though.
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It's different alright,
12/13 hrs on Mountain Lion and now 6-8 hrs on Mavericks. Hit the Mac forums and be amazed.
Also, you can clear the various caches CMD/OPT P etc and it still poos on battery life.
Great thing about Mac is you can revert back to an old OS.
Bad thing about IPHone is you can't.
RIP Jobs
Originally posted by wizard69 View PostMavericks, Apples latest version of Mac OS is very different in the way it conserves battery charge. Unless you do a lot of testing it would be hard to say how all of the new energy saving features impact battery life and by association graphical performance.
That being said Apple has never had tweaky high performance drivers for their GPUS. They are biased to correctness and accuracy in their drivers.
Without a system to play with I can't say for sure what is going on here. I fairly certain though that if you ran these systems side by side, that is a Mavericks machine and a Ubuntu machine, that the machine running Mavericks would last much longer. Let's face it Linux isn't a low power platform yet.
Honestly it would be interesting to see if Michael could run a few tests to confirm my theory. Maybe run his benchmarking program until the battery dies a few times.
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Originally posted by squirrl View PostIt's different alright,
12/13 hrs on Mountain Lion and now 6-8 hrs on Mavericks. Hit the Mac forums and be amazed.
Also, you can clear the various caches CMD/OPT P etc and it still poos on battery life.
Great thing about Mac is you can revert back to an old OS.
Bad thing about IPHone is you can't.
RIP Jobs
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