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Jul 23rd, 2009 at 12:17am

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So as I sit here in front of my computer with seriously sunburned legs, I decided to have a bit of fun with some of the browsers that are available to the public.

For the Test I used:
MacBook Pro: 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo | 4GB DDR2 667 (4-4-4-12) | GeForce 8600M GT | 500GB 5400RPM HDD | Mac OS X 10.5.7

Browsers used:
Safari 4.0.2
FireFox 3.5.1
Chromium 0.1 (early beta build for OS X)
Minefield 3.6 alpha compiled on 7/22/2009

Results:
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Benchmark used:
FutureMark Peacekeeper
 
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Reply #1 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 9:15am

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Please raise your hand if you also use Mac products.


Now, how does IE8 run on that Mac?  Grin Grin Grin Wink
 
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Reply #2 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 12:15pm

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No such thing Wink Now if I ran the test using my Vista installation then I would be able to do that Wink
 
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Reply #3 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 12:28pm

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Are you able to run FS on Mac? Huh

If so, is it better or worse?
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 1:38pm

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Boot Camp allows the installation of Windows operating systems on the Mac platform with out a virtual machine.

Re-ran the tests on Windows Vista Ultimate x86 on the same hardware.

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I do run FS on here and it does very well... For a laptop anyways Grin
 
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Reply #5 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 1:45pm

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Boy that IE is a real Graphics rendering engine isn't it?  Grin Wink
 
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Reply #6 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 3:45pm

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The complex graphics part is not included in the overall score because it's not supported yet. As you can see all the other browsers do very well at that part.
 
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Reply #7 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 4:24pm

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Grin I was hoping it wasn't that bad. Grin Wink
 
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Reply #8 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 11:32pm

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Lets throw opera in the mix shall we?

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Reply #9 - Jul 24th, 2009 at 9:02am

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So what is safari?  Never heard of it, but it appears to be the best in these tests.
 
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Reply #10 - Jul 24th, 2009 at 9:48pm

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Its Apple's web browser. If you use iTunes/quicktime chances are that you have it installed already because of the Apple Software Update. If you don't have it then you can download it here
 
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Reply #11 - Jul 24th, 2009 at 9:53pm

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Apple's browser will work on a PC? That's pretty wild.

Is it worth it? Obviously the test results above say so, but does that same result happen on a PC?
 
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Reply #12 - Jul 24th, 2009 at 10:41pm

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I don't know as none of the computers in my house are as good as my laptop Grin Its worth a shot though. If you don't like it you can always uninstall it Wink

If it works on Windows Vista i think it works on a PC Wink
 
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Reply #13 - Jul 25th, 2009 at 2:32pm

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ShaneG wrote on Jul 24th, 2009 at 9:53pm:
Apple's browser will work on a PC? That's pretty wild.

Is it worth it? Obviously the test results above say so, but does that same result happen on a PC?

I tried Safari (the newest version) on my computer (XP x64) for a while, but I stopped using it because it's terrible for playing videos and can't connect to FTP sites (which means no downloading from SimV!)
 
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Reply #14 - Jul 25th, 2009 at 5:10pm

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I've never had a problem with the videos but I do have the issue with downloading things from here. When that happens I just send bug reports to apple Grin
 
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