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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on November 27, 2007, 13:15

Title: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Clive on November 27, 2007, 13:15

New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

LINK (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39291081,00.htm?r=1)

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Rik on November 27, 2007, 13:18

This one will run and run...  :icon_chuckpc:

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: gmax on November 27, 2007, 13:39

Nothing new there, Vista really is, is a piece of typical Microsoft crap bloatware , with all that useless eye candy wasting the processor.

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Rik on November 27, 2007, 16:35

Nice to find another puritan about the place.  :) I run XP in classic mode, with all the fancy stuff, except font smoothing, turned off. Why waste cycles on effects?

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: gmax on November 28, 2007, 00:18

I use a neat little program"XP-AntiSpy " to disable all the useless junk.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/XPAntiSpy/1020440577/1

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Clive on November 30, 2007, 19:41

XP service pack 3 is going to make it run 10 percent faster

LINK (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_xp_sp3_performance;_ylt=AtM5tDhFLCMg2p.6B3.nPais0NUE)

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2007, 20:44

I'm actually thinking of removing Vista from my laptop and installing XP.  It will be even more tempting when SP3 comes out.  I have nothing against Vista, in fact, I like it, but my laptop isn't the most powerful, and it does run fairly slowly with Vista installed.  Also, several of my programs, like Roboform and Sea Monkey, still don't run perfectly on Vista.

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Reno on November 30, 2007, 23:45

I use xubuntu on my little 900mhz laptop. Makes it run like a bat out of hell. If I had xp on the thing it would take 15 minutes to get to the desktop.

The first thing i noticed in vista was the no run in the start menu. I know its around there somewhere, but..... I don't want to look for it.

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2007, 23:50

The Windows Key + R shortcut still works, Bob.  :)

Title: Re: Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
Post by: Reno on November 30, 2007, 23:53

Thanks simons. Next time i'm on a vista machine i'll try it out.  ::)