Mac OS X Lion vs. Windows 8 Developer Preview speed comparison

Due to the different structures of Mac OS X Lion and Windows 8, there is no comparability on techniques on these two popular operation systems. However, as consumer-oriented operation systems, we could make a comparison between these two operation systems on the experience speed, including Startup, Shutdown, CD Ripping in iTunes, Geekbench 2.2 64-bit score, etc. The PCMag has made a speed testing for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 8 Developer Preview (for the official Windows 8 is far finished, the Windows 8 Developer Preview version is adopted here.) If you are interested in the speed testing, you can also check Windows 8: Early Speed Tests by PCMag. The content and result of the speed comparison between Mac OS X Lion and Windows 8 Developer Preview is showed in the picture bellow:

Quite obviously, the Windows 8 Developer Preview advanced in the Startup, Greekbench, Mozilla Kraken and Psychedelic Browsing, but loses in the Shutdown, CD Ripping and SunSpider parts. But in the CD Ripping in iTunes test, we could see the difference is quite little. As a universal popular app, the iTunes in Mac OS X Lion spent 3:44 minutes to rip CD to video while that in Windows 8 Developer Preview costs 3:52 minutes.

From this speed testing, Windows 8 bested Lion slightly. Since the benchmark is mostly designed to rate the hardware, any slight improvement is a feather in the OS software’s cap. Windows 8 showed a nearly 17 percent edge over Lion. Of course, this test only relies on the partial speed performance, thus couldn’t stand the final result for which is better. Let’s just wait for the official release of the Windows 8 OS and then we could make a more detailed comparison.

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Apple WWDC 2011 Memior: Detailed Features of Mac OS X Lion, Ios 5 and iCloud

Today, in San Francisco, Apple launched its Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 with more than 5000 developers attending. Like so many others not lucky enough to attend this annual conference, I was glued to a number of live blogs reporting on the annual technique feast.

On the WWDC, Steve Jobs made a keynote address, which includes the leading roles of this annual conference, respectively referring to the next version of Mac OS X (“Lion”), the next version of the iPhone/iPad/Touch software (“iOS 5”), and a new online syncing service called iCloud. There are a lot of reports on these three new products right before the launch of WWDC, however, very few detailed information was announced before. After the inauguration ceremony, more detailed features of Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud had been revealed.

Here is a brief summary of detailed features for the three:

The next version of Mac OS X: Lion (Available this July at $29 only through App Store)

The next version of Mac OS X (Lion) includes more than 250 new features. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, gave a short overview of the first three – Multitouch gestures, fullscreen applications, and Mission Control, while Federighi, vice president of OS X software, made a quick demonstration. Other features demonstrated: Launchpad, the iOS-esque application-management tool; Resume, which saves the states of your windows and work on quit; Auto Save and Versions, which offer easy version management control in a Time Machine-like interface; AirDrop, a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi-based network; and an upgraded version of Mail, featuring a three-column interface, conversation view, search suggestions, and color-coding; new Mail function, Built-in FaceTime, etc.  

iOS 5: the next version of the iPhone/iPad/Touch software

Apple senior vice president Scott Forstall covered 10 new features out of the 200 planned for iOS 5, the next iteration of the company’s mobile operating system for Apple devices, including: New Push-Notification system: combines notifications of all apps. More humanized designed. Only a simple click could lead you to check or dismiss notifications; Newsstand: a devoted app for accessing and downloading those periodicals; Twitter: Apple combines Twitter with several functions like camera, map, contacts, etc; Safari: a new feature – Reader, lets you get (and share) all the content of an article, removing navigation, ads, and other content-leaving only the text; and some other new features included in iOS 5 include Reminders, upgraded Camera, Mail (rich text formatting, full-text searching, drag-and-drop address, text composition, and more), PC Free (wireless upgrading), Game Center, iMessage (new message service for all Apple users), etc.

Apple iCloud: new online syncing service

Apple iCloud is what MobileMe was intended to be, but better . Steve Jobs made the demonstration for Apple iCloud, which combines the previous MobileMe but is free for Apple users. The iCloud would enable users to sync emails, bookmarks, iBooks, app purchases, song purchases and photos to and among your iOS devices, Macs, PCs and the Web. These have been the default settings and functions of Apple iCloud. Besides these, Apple users would also be provided with an upgraded 5GB mail storage. iTunes iCloud would be tested on iOS 4.3, while the release time is set to be the same as that of Ios 5, both in this July. An additional service was mentioned during Jobs’ demonstration that is called as iTunes Match. For $25 a year, an iTunes Match user will be able to add music not purchased from iTunes to his or her iCloud music collection. The number of songs an iTunes Match subscriber can store is unlimited.

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Apple Press News: Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6 of WWDC

Yesterday, Apple has officially released an Apple Press for the upcoming Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). It is reported in this press that Steve Jobs will kick off a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. which would include the next generation software of Apple: Mac OS X Lion, Ios 5 and iCloud.

“CUPERTINO, California—May 31, 2011—Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software – Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.

WWDC will feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers. Mac® developers will see and learn how to develop world-class Mac OS X Lion applications using its latest technologies and capabilities. Mobile developers will be able to explore the latest innovations and capabilities of iOS and learn how to greatly enhance the functionality, performance and design of their apps. All developers can bring their code to the labs and work with Apple engineers. ” – From Apple PR library.

From this keynote address, we could get the info that there is no iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S mentioned here. The previous rumor about the next generation of iPhone to come out on WWDC 2011 could not be true. And we may have the reason to think that this big conference of Apple would mostly focus on software upgrading, rather than hardware releasing.

More info about the Apple WWDC 2011 would be released here.

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