Title : Benchmark: Linux, OS X on Core Duo 
Date : 2006-05-07 
Code : Jasjeet Sekhon <a href="http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/macosx/intel.html" target="blank">benchmarked Linux and MacOS X on the MacBook Pro</a> using <a href="http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/matching/" target="blank">his statistical software</a>, and finds that "Linux is found to be much faster than Apple's OS X for statistical computing. For example, in one benchmark Linux is more than twice as fast." Earlier, he <a href="http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/macosx/g5.html" target="blank">ran tests on a G5 and an Opteron</a>, and conlcuded: "Those results were terrible for OS X and not particularly good for the G5 (970) chip. For example, my 2.7 pound Pentium-M Linux laptop is faster than my 44 pound G5 running OS X. The floating point performance of the 970 chip leaves much to be desired, but OS X makes the performance problem significantly worse." 
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