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Launch Times: EeePC vs. MacBook

2008.02.09


Here are a few launch times, in seconds.  The specs are as follows:

EeePC:  701/4GB SSD/1GB RAM/Celeron M 900@630MHz
MacBook: macbook1,1/250GB WD 5400RPM/2GB RAM/2GHz CoreDuo

Things here are mostly stock.  The version of OpenOffice on the EeePC is 2.0.4, so it would probably be a bit faster with 2.3.1.  The Mac was running NeoOffice.  It might be a bit slower than OOo on the Mac, but it's still the best OOo option.  The EeePC is undoubtedly slower when you run many apps simultaneously.  This is when the extra RAM and second CPU core really shine.

Times
EeePC MacBook Version










Boot
20 50
Mac: 10.5.1

Boot&wifi 25 54
Eee: XandrOS stock
Firefox
7 10
2.0.11


Thunderbird 15 15
2.0.0.9


Gnumeric 3 NA




OpenOffice 12 20
2.2.2 Patch 8

Ooo No Java 8 NA
NA


Ooo Open 40 page doc 5 8
(Manipulation slower on Mac)
Jedit
10 8
4.3pre12

Abiword
2 3
Bean


Notes
5 1
Stickies


Rox
<1 <1
Finder


Scite
<2 2
Smultron

Konqueror 2(+5) NA
NA


Transcribe 2 2
version 7.50

Audacity
2 2
1.3


Gimp
6 10
Mac: 2.4.3