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> Fresh install of OSX vs fresh install of Win7 on capable Macbook

Why Windows 7 and not Windows 10? The article is capturing fascinating data, and I'd like to see how Edge stacks up.

Windows 8.1 probably makes more sense, I'm not sure how stale a 1 day old OS would be

Specially on a macbook woth notably nbad windows drivers...

A post on HN a few weeks ago showed that Windows 10 preview was smoother than OS X on a MacBook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555628

I upvoted you because Apple's drivers for Windows are notoriously bad, but the major impact is on user input (trackpad, for example) rather than on performance (in fact, Windows tends to perform better than OS X on a number of tasks on a given hardware configuration) so I think it would still make sense to run the test on Windows on identical hardware.

its not about speed its about power. if hardware isnt even instructed to go into sleep mode for example, there will be large differences.. which tends to happen on macbooks running windows.

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