Early Benchmarks Of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Early Benchmarks Of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

By now you have likely read all about the features announced for Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" thus far along with seeing plenty of screenshots and videos showing off Launchpad, Mission Control, Versions, the improved mail client, and much more. But how does Apple's next-generation operating system perform? Well, here is a look at the performance of Mac OS X 10.7, including what are likely the first public benchmarks of Mac OS X Lion.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=15737

[kraftman]

What an impressive performance gains... oh, wait. I have the same when I use 32bit Linux vs 64 one.

[blacknova]

Nice improvements so far.
However I'd like to see how Lion performance under memory pressure conditions. Snow Leopard sucked great at that being unwilling to re-use 'Inactive' memory.

[allquixotic]

I'm surprised Apple gave you permission to benchmark their "alpha" of 10.7! And to actually call it a benchmark at the same time, while running a single-threaded kernel!

Well, either that, or you never obtained permission and you're in trouble...

[TechMage89]

Well, given how well it fared, I doubt they'll complain *too* loudly.

[deanjo]

I'm surprised Apple gave you permission to benchmark their "alpha" of 10.7! And to actually call it a benchmark at the same time, while running a single-threaded kernel!

Well, either that, or you never obtained permission and you're in trouble...

They don't have any benchmarking clause in their eula.