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That's not an i7, it's a MacBook Air really low-power CPU. And it's not quad core, it's dual core + HT (i7 4650U [1]). A "real" mobile i7 quad has twice the per
by miahi 11y ago
That's not an i7, it's a MacBook Air really low-power CPU. And it's not quad core, it's dual core + HT (i7 4650U [1]). A "real" mobile i7 quad has twice the performance, and a "real" desktop i7 is about three times faster. So a better title for this would be "6 Pi2 vs MBA vs DigitalOcean".
[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/75114/Intel-Core-i7-4650U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/75114/Intel-Core-i7-4650U-Proc...
- sciurus 11y agoAlso, instead of testing directly on the Macbook Air the author runs the test against a "cluster" of 6 virtual machines.
- geerlingguy 11y agoI wanted to compare apples to apples in terms of the DO vs local VM infrastructure; the VT-X and KVM structure make the overhead of running the individual VMs highly efficient. I'd like to also do some testing against a single local AMP stack when I get time.