A First Result: Comparing 2 Notebooks (Acer and Apple) running Linux

[Chris Ruprecht]

The Database load finished some time in the early hours this morning. The=
=20
PowerBook used 237 Minutes to complete the task, the Acer did it in 442=20
minutes. This would make the PowerBook about twice as fast. So far, so go=
od.

On Sunday 04 August 2002 12:39, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> Hi all (again),
>
> I'm trying to compare the usefullness of two machines, the contesters a=
re:
> PowerBook G4/667, 30 GB Toshiba HDD, 512 MB RAM, 667 MHz G4
> Acer TravelMate 521TXV, 40 GB Toshiba HDD (30 for Linux), 512 MB RAM, 6=
00
> Mhz Pentium-III
>
> The Mac is running YDL 2.3, the Acer runs RedHat 7.3 + all the patches.
>
> I have configured both of the machines virtually identical, as gar as t=
ht
> is possible. I want to check the speeds on both of these machines, see
> which one does things the best way. I started a database load into a
> PostgreSQL database, which is very disk intensive. The Acer is currentl=
y
> much more responsive, the PowerBook is very very sluggish - hmmmm - the
> Powerbook is mine, whereas the Acer belongs to my employer ... So, clea=
rly,
> I want the PowerBook to come out the winner in this contest, but for no=
w,
> It looks like the Acer is doing a little better.
>
> Does anybody know of any other objective tests I can run to compare the
> two?
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
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