Show Your Support: This site is primarily supported by advertisements. Ads are what have allowed this site to be maintained on a daily basis for the past 19+ years. We do our best to ensure only clean, relevant ads are shown, when any nasty ads are detected, we work to remove them ASAP. If you would like to view the site without ads while still supporting our work, please consider our ad-free Phoronix Premium.

OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux: A Battle With No Clear Winner

When running PostgreSQL, OS X Lion and Mountain Lion were much faster than Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin and Quantal Quetzal.

The Python benchmarks were much faster on Ubuntu than Apple OS X.

Next up are the benchmark results from the late-2010 Apple MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i5 "Arrandale" processor and 160GB OCZ Agility 2 SSD.