Before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion"
next month, here's a look at how the latest point release of Mac
OS X 10.7 "Lion" is performing compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise
Pangolin" and the latest development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal
Quetzal" Linux.
The OS X 10.7.4 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10 2012-06-21
benchmarking was done from a mid-2011 Mac Mini. This Apple Mac Mini from last
year is based on Intel's Sandy Bridge micro-architecture with the Core i5 2415M.
The Intel i5-2415M is a quad-core part with Hyper Threading (though under OS X
10.7.4 it still advertises itself as just having two logical cores) that has a
base frequency of 2.3GHz and a maximum Turbo Frequency of 2.9GHz. Intel HD 3000
graphics are integrated and used by this low-end Apple device. The system has
2GB of RAM and a 500GB Hitachi hard drive.
After benchmarking the clean installation of Mac OS X 10.7.4,
it was onto performing clean installs of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS followed by the 2012-06-21
snapshot of the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10.
All three operating systems were running with their stock packages,
compiler, OS settings, etc to test a proper "out of the box" experience.
sources : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macosx_lion_precise&num=1
sources : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macosx_lion_precise&num=1