Comments on: MacBook Air vs Dell Mini 9 Boot Time

By: brian1010101

brian1010101 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

yeah your right, i just looked it up right after i posted that. there is an option to get a ssd or hdd

By: Bikercr3w

Bikercr3w — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

how can you run leopard on the dell mini 9?

By: AdmiralAlpha

AdmiralAlpha — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

Out of curiosity, how many rotations per seconds is the HDD in the MacBook Air?

By: onnisciente

onnisciente — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

4200 rpm

By: ibpointless2

ibpointless2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

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.

By: aegnt09

aegnt09 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

yeah thats the air, try the aluminum macbook vs the dell.
and what r u using to run mac on pc?

By: criox12

criox12 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

Yeah.. a SSD apposed to a super slow, 4200rpm normal HD, of course it would boot up that much faster

By: mattc867

mattc867 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

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.

By: mattc867

mattc867 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

edit: 1300 more than the mini9 i meant to say.

By: mattc867

mattc867 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:15 +0000

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.