New MacBook, smoother UI on Windows 10 and Mac OS X
A student at Tufts University released his impressions of the new MacBook with Windows 10 after using it for about a month.
The new MacBook has been defined by the first reviews from overseas as the laptop of the future is not yet ready for this. It’s thin, lightweight, offers great autonomy and is fanless, but its performance may be improved according to the first American writers. Designed to be versatile because of its design, it is not as versatile when it comes to working with software that requires a discrete computational power.
But if it depended on the operating system Mac OS X preinstalled Yosemite? This was the question that has arisen Alex King, a student of computer science at Tufts University who has released his impressions of use of the 12-inch MacBook after using it for about a month. King has tried the new laptop with the first beta versions of Windows 10, the Technical and Insider Preview, bringing a picture diametrically opposite to the reflections made so far on the new laptop with Yosemite.
The student has Windows 10 installed via Boot Camp, different from the execution through a virtual machine, the operating system was running natively and exploited all available resources on the system. Finding with drivers and some system settings, King was able to carry through the installation of the operating software of Microsoft, reporting after the impressions of use.
It’s fast, it’s fluid. Render the GUI to 60 fps unless you’re doing many things at once. It offers clearly superior performance compared to OS X, which leads me to think that Apple should make a complete overhaul on the way that are running animations on its OS, ” said the King on his blog. ” Even when I disable the transparency of OS X some screens are not completely smooth. ”
In contrast, on Windows 10 ” even after switching the translucency Aero Glass everything is extremely fluid, ” he continued, looking at last: ” It might seem ironic in some ways, the new MacBook runs better with Windows 10 than with OS X “. King has also been impressed by Microsoft Edge, the new browser interface with ” modern “, and the ability of Windows 10 to run smoothly (although at reduced resolution) three-dimensional games and emulators for consoles of previous generations.
In short, according to the King perceived poor performance with the new MacBook are not due to the alleged shortcomings of the new Intel Core-M, but a heaviness not justifiable with the latest version of Mac OS when the counterparty Microsoft seems to be doing much better right now in phase beta. The final thought of King addressed the PC market, which could be completed with very interesting solutions in the coming months with the combination of the new Core-M and Windows 10.
Following the explosion of news on various channels of internet, Alex King updated the article specifying that more fluid does not necessarily translate into better: ” Overall, the fluidity of the user interface is not the only metric for determining the speed of an operating system, ” writes the same author who, with his post wants to focus simply on the fluidity of the animations, and not on the speed of execution of various tasks.
In other words, installing Windows 10 you can enjoy the animations for fluid, but inevitably you will lose the unique features of the Apple operating system.
