Windows 10 runs better on the rMBP than Yosemite

[tech324]

I have confirmed this myself, I installed Windows 10 beta on my 2015 13inch rMBP and it runs a lot smoother than Yosemite. I don't get the UI lag that I get in Yosemite

Pretty sad that a beta of Windows runs smoother than Yosemite on a rMBP.


Here is an article stating it runs better on the new retina macbook also

http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/15/retina-macbook-windows-10/

 

[jev425]

What did you use to run windows 10?

 

[TechGod]

What did you use to run windows 10?

He probably used bootcamp.

 

[spriter]

Recently returned to Mac (rMBP mid 2014) after a few years out on Windows by necessity rather than choice. I've always preferred OSX for my everyday workflow.

However, I was a little surprised when I fired up the rMBP to find Yosemite smoothness lacking. It clearly needs a polish to get anywhere near Snow Leopard levels.

Coming back from Windows (8.1) I figured I'd give the recent Win 10 build a try. And I'd have to agree that it's very smooth - much more than I expected. There's some rough edges and the weird slow adoption of HiDPI apps/scaling issued on Windows is annoying but, as someone who spends a lot of time in Office and OneNote, I could use this.

My only issue would be battery life and I don't see Win 10 lasting ten hours like Yosemite. But I'm willing to test it and see.

Funnily enough, the same Win 10 build on my outgoing Yoga 2 Pro was fairly horrible.

 

[maflynn]

I have windows 10 on my surface pro 3, and I'm very impressed with the stability of this technical preview. Its very solid, there are bugs here and there, but overall I think in its beta form, its more robust and bug free then yosemite was at 10.10.0

 

[prism]

I'm running win10 on a vm and the GUI is smooth as silk...

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Intel macs

Have always run windows better than most windows machines.....

 

[yjchua95]

Have always run windows better than most windows machines.....

Can you not split your sentence between the title and the main text box? It's very inconsiderate of you to do this, because you're inconveniencing mobile users, who can't see the title area and they can't understand jack **** of what you're writing because only the part that's written in the main text box is visible to mobile users.

Besides, doing this is also inconsiderate to desktop users, because it means that we can't read everything in one smooth line.

 

[Pentad]

Microsoft has done an excellent job with Windows 10. I too have been running the tech previews and found them to be solid and constantly improving.

I don't know what the next version of OS X is going to be called but Apple will have to work really hard to put out an OS as polished as Windows 10.

I would rather see a longer release cycle if it means a more stable and polished OS.

-P

 

[maflynn]

I don't know what the next version of OS X is going to be called but Apple will have to work really hard to put out an OS as polished as Windows 10.

I'm hoping the same thing. They'll focus more time on what's under the hood then adding a lot of features.

I would rather see a longer release cycle if it means a more stable and polished OS.

Agreed, I think the annual cycle for major updates is not sustainable, at least with adding major features.

 

[tech324]

What did you use to run windows 10?

Bootcamp.

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I like Mac's OS, I use unix daily with my job. I always thought Apple put a decent GUI on top of unix, however with Yosemite I am not impressed at all. I really hope Apple fixes the UI lag in their OS.

 

[DarwinOSX]

Microsoft has done an excellent job with Windows 10. I too have been running the tech previews and found them to be solid and constantly improving.

I don't know what the next version of OS X is going to be called but Apple will have to work really hard to put out an OS as polished as Windows 10.

I would rather see a longer release cycle if it means a more stable and polished OS.

-P

The Windows 10 interface is still designed by committee garbage. Also Windows 10 currently makes very poor use of hardware resources like ram, cpu, and disk. I've run both extensively while monitoring them.
But it is early.

 

[Kissmyne]

I have confirmed this myself, I installed Windows 10 beta on my 2015 13inch rMBP and it runs a lot smoother than Yosemite. I don't get the UI lag that I get in Yosemite

Pretty sad that a beta of Windows runs smoother than Yosemite on a rMBP.


Here is an article stating it runs better on the new retina macbook also

http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/15/retina-macbook-windows-10/

If you are getting UI "lag", go to Accessibility and check Reduce Transparency, this will vastly improve performance for your iGPU. Windows OS Transparencies have always been far less complex, so its not surprising that Windows will run smoothly on a Mac considering all the awful hardware people run Windows on. I don't have any plans to run Windows 10 on my Mac, but Win 8.1 runs just fine. No UI lags in either, but OS X is definitely more friendly in daily use.