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>Hardware: Mid-2007 MacBook Pro

Wouldn't it make more sense to do this on generic server hardware with a LTS Linux OS? Once that vintage and customized MacBook bites the dust the website pretty much dies as well.

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There's nothing magical about a Linux server. If you're arguing an LTS edition will run on newer hardware, well sure but the benchmarks will be just as incomparable.

You're right that theres nothing magical, but there is a clear advantage to faster disks, a more modern & faster CPU, newer & faster ram (this is running DDR2 in the benchmark), etc. I'd be curious why this particular machine was used for benchmarking, and if the same benchmarking method yielded different results on EC2 or something like that.

You should check out http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ where they test on hardware and in the cloud

What are the odds that the Linux kernel is faster than OS X for server workloads? I don't have any data to back this up but I've heard awful things about their filesystem in particular. (Supposedly they have a global filesystem lock.)

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