This is a comparison between Macbook Air and Dell Mni 9 boot time. Both the Macbook Air and Dell Mini 9 are running leopard as the Operating System. You might be suprised on the result though!
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MacBook Air vs Dell Mini 9 Boot Time
Posted on 11 April 2009
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Edubase - who has written 997 posts on Malaysia Laptop, Notebook and Netbook Resources and Review.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
That’s embarrassingly slow for a 2500 dollar computer. Can you do this for the MSi Wind U100? The MSi has a regular HDD, so I think it would be a fairer comparison.
This was a great video, by the way.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
wait… how did u get a mac setting screen thingy on a dell?!?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
A MBA with an SSD costs about $2000 more than the Mini 9…
No joke.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
price difference?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
dude… The Dell uses SSD use a MAC with a SSD if you want to make a fare race..
peace
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I agree the SSD vs HDD is not a worthy comparison. In addition, from what I’ve read online about the hackintosh for the Mini9, due to the very small capacity of it’s SSD, the OS X that’s installed on it has a lot of otherwise standard components removed. A good test would be SSD vs SSD with the exact same OS X install.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
About 3.5 hours under normal use (browsing web, watching movies, etc)
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
No, sorry.
It is a FULL Leopard Install, not a stripped down version.
In fact, the two Dell Mini9’s I have have 32GB SSD’s with standard Leopard installs only take 28 seconds to boot up.
No tricks, no stripping down of OSX.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
i know, i have tried it and it worked slow to start with and after about an hour it crashed the entire system every 5 min, and then the hard drive was broken (bad sectors or something.) so i’m not trying that again.
have u tried it?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
its the new apple netbook!!
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Yeah, I tried it awhile back on an HP pavillion. I tried using a pre-patched install .iso and it wouldnt work. I later found out about the osx86 project and they have a whole wiki that tells you what patch files you need for your specific hardware and how to patch the install file yourself and all that stuff. But alas, I no longer have a laptop I’m willing to test it on.
If I ever get a dell m9 though… osx is going on it.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I’d much rather have the Dell 9″ for the sub $500 price tag… are you listening Apple? I guess Apple doesn’t care about making more money. I just don’t get why they refuse to compete with the cheaper market segments. The Mini 9 looks like a freaking fantastic little machine with OS X. But what will Apple give us? Probably a 10″ touchscreen computer for $900+.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
yeah your right, i just looked it up right after i posted that. there is an option to get a ssd or hdd
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
how can you run leopard on the dell mini 9?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Out of curiosity, how many rotations per seconds is the HDD in the MacBook Air?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
4200 rpm
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
SSD vs hard drive, of course the SSD is going to win and plus the macbook air was not running the original dock so he had used so 3rd party app to change that don’t know if that matters much.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
yeah thats the air, try the aluminum macbook vs the dell.
and what r u using to run mac on pc?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Yeah.. a SSD apposed to a super slow, 4200rpm normal HD, of course it would boot up that much faster
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
getting osx to run on non-apple hardware is tricky but not impossible. There are a couple of webpages and even a wiki (osx86project) dedicated getting osx to run on other hardware. It’s not that osx can’t run on a pc, it’s that Apple has specifically built into the kernel code that won’t allow the os to boot on non-apple hardware. Patching the kernel allows you to run osx on other systems. Though most computers still have driver issues, The dell mini9 runs osx fantastically.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
edit: 1300 more than the mini9 i meant to say.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
agreed. Boot tests like this are worthless measures of a computers overall performance. It comes down to SSD v. HDD. The solid state drive will win any day of the week. It’s also worth noting that the faster drive is probably the only advantage the dell mini9 has over the macbook air.
but the macbook air is still a waste of money in my opinion. It’s like 1300 more than a macbook air.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
“The MacBook Air has a 1.6 GHz Core2Duo with 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM.”
So no, it isn’t.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
so is the mac
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I’m not. The Macbook Air sucks.