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don't use a laptop for benchmarking operating systems! Why not? Laptops are poised to overtake desktop PCs. It seems valid (even necessary) to test your prod
by palish 18y ago
don't use a laptop for benchmarking operating systems!
Why not? Laptops are poised to overtake desktop PCs. It seems valid (even necessary) to test your product on popular consumer configurations.
- JoelSutherland 18y agoAgreed. In my experience I have found that XP boots and runs faster than Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop. This was not the case on the same machine back in the 7.04 days.
- delano 18y agoThat's a different type of test. You're talking about testing the performance of your laptop with various configurations. This article is comparing the performance of several versions of Ubuntu and the reason you don't want to use a laptop for that is because laptops have significantly slower hard drives than desktop models (even at the same RPM). Also the laptop they're using has a 5400 RPM drive which doesn't help.
- JoelSutherland 18y agoWhy is it bad to use a slower hard drive for a benchmark comparing software? You haven't explained this yet.
- delano 18y agoI answered that question in my reply to palish.
- notdarkyet 18y agoThis can simply be answered by looking at the number of start-up scripts that are being executed. If that number has increased relative to 7.04, then of course your boot time is going to be slower. There are not too many things inherently different between the past few releases in terms of booting.
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- delano 18y agoYou're right. It's valid and necessary when you want to compare the performance of different machines. When you're comparing software to software, hardware should not be a limiting factor unless you're testing for specific cases.