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Re: IDL and Macs. Speed is not only about squared roots [message #49299 is a reply to message #49297] Fri, 14 July 2006 06:26 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
jgc is currently offline  jgc
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Registered: July 2006
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Hi,

> You mention input and output. What exactly do you mean?

You described it:

> If you're chucking lots of data to and from the disk I'd expect a
> laptop to be slower than a desktop regardless of cpu speed, as the
> disks are slower in laptops generally (and Mac Minis too).

You are right, sorry I forgot to mention that both are laptops, that's
why I was surprised to see such a big difference

> The fairest test is going to be running the same program on an Intel
> OS X machine, and the same machine booted into Windows.

I might search for one, and let you know the results.



Cheers,

Javier

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> Edd
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