Which hemisphere of the Earth is drier? Detailed answer

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Which hemisphere of the Earth is drier?

Land and water are unevenly distributed over the surface of our planet. The greatest continents of Eurasia and North America lie in the Northern Hemisphere. 4/5 people live there. Most of the Southern Hemisphere is occupied by the Pacific Ocean with an area of 178,620 million km². This is more than the sum of all other seas and oceans.

Look at the globe: turning it towards you in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you will see almost only one water surface.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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The 13-inch MacBook Pro has proven to be the most reliable laptop to run and work with the Windows operating system. The most reliable vendor was Dell, whose laptops took five places in the top ten at once.

Apple MacBook Pro is the best laptop for Microsoft Windows operating system. This is the conclusion reached by Soluto, who tested the mid-13 2012-inch model along with nine other computers. The MacBook Pro was voted the best because Windows installed on it had fewer crashes, freezes, and blue screens of death compared to other laptops. The version of Windows is not specified on which the tests were conducted, the researchers did not specify.

Also tested were Acer Aspire E1-571, Dell XPS 13, Dell Vostro 3560, Acer Aspire V3-771, Apple MacBook Pro 15 Retina, Dell Inspiron 14z, Dell Latitude E5530, Dell Vostro 3460 and Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon - these laptops ranked from second to tenth, respectively. According to tests, the number of crashes in Windows installed on the MacBook Pro 13 was 0,88 times per week, the number of freezes was 1,06 times per week, while the "blue screen of death" occurred 0,01 times per week. The total score of the car was 1,05 (the lower the value, the better the result).

The Acer Aspire E1-571, which came in second, had 0,74 crashes, 0,40 freezes, and 0,06 blue screens of death each week. The total score is 1,12.

The last 1th place Lenovo Thinkpad X1,69 Carbon had 1,34 crashes, 0,09 freezes and 3,20 blue screens of death each week. The total score was XNUMX.

Why the MacBook Pro has become the most reliable Windows-based PC is easy to explain, and Soluto's analysts make no secret of it. The fact is that on the MacBook Pro, the Windows operating system was installed in its purest form, without third-party software that laptop vendors clutter Windows with. This is reflected in Soluto's statistics: if the MacBook Pro had 60 background processes, then the Acer Aspire E1-571 (second place) had 66 processes, and the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (tenth place) had 85 processes altogether.

Notebook manufacturers should consider that if they stopped cluttering Windows with additional utilities, the operating system would run much faster and more stable, and the user would be more comfortable and pleasant to use the laptop, the report says. Meanwhile, analysts acknowledge that the MacBook Pro is the most expensive Windows laptop ever: even without the Windows license that is otherwise included in the price of the computer, its starting price is $1199. For comparison, the starting price for the second place winner is $429.

"Comparing the performance of laptops with pure Windows and Windows, supplemented with a bunch of applications, at first glance seems incorrect. However, our goal was to compare the real situation - as if we were a regular user and bought a new system," Soluto explained.

Analysts also acknowledged that installing Windows on a Mac is a longer and more complicated process. In addition, there are other disadvantages of such a bundle, for example, the lack of the Del key on the Mac keyboard, possible problems with drivers, and so on. On the other hand, the user gets an unsurpassed build quality and an impressive trackpad.

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