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InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K
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submitted an InfoWorld story that makes the shocking claim that XP is slower then 2k for business use. Pretty graphs, comparisons of SMP, and they even tested without the eye candy. My favorite comment is this one "it appears that for light-duty service on the newest hardware, Windows XP with Office XP is an acceptable choice -- if an 11 percent performance hit, or 53 minutes added to an 8-hour day, is acceptable." And thats the best case scenario.
Don't you know? Of course it's going to run slower: It's got all those extra features that win2k didn't have like um... hmmm...
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"InforWorld story that makes the shocking claim that XP is slower then 2k for business use"
even more shocking is that InfoWorld has changed their name to InforWorld, and that the previously respectable publication has taken to printing such elementary mistakes as "slower then" rather than "slower than"
troll me, flamebait me, i don't care. you should check your spelling and learn the difference between the common homonyms! and here i thought this site was for geeks and nerds...
Now with compiler optimizations!
I heard XP is a crippled version of Win2k, like the Celeron is a crippled Pentium. Apparently the main differences with XP are:
1) XP gets a slightly re-worked "Microsoft Bob" interface, designed to slow user interaction by 20%.
2) Mail handling DLL's are specially tuned to only spread VB worms at the rate of 5 address book entries per second (Win2k does 10 per second).
3) Mad swapping begins to occur every 3 minutes, instead of 6 in XP.
These are all designed-in performance features intended to prevent dilution of the Windows 2000 market.
Running Word 6.0 on Windows 3.11 a Pentium 4 significantly outperforms Office Xp on the same machine!!!
Who'da thunkit?
If God gave us curiosity
This is why I still have my typewriter: you don't even have to tell it to print, it's so damn fast.
considering how often you are going to have to reboot! :)
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Actually, it's like going from NT 5.0 to NT 5.1, check the OSVERSIONEX yourself to see! :-)
I have to work for an extra 53 minutes each day since we switched to Windows XP. My job is to hit the recalc button on my spreadsheet 42,000 times a day.
I've decided to switch all our desktops to multi processor machines too. Small performance increases (and of course, computer performance is THE bottleneck for worker productivity) are well worth raising our hardware expenditure by 50%.
Of course XP is a little slower, but that's neither critical information, nor all that surprising. At least he could have done benchmarks on server software (where performance is a little more of a limiter).
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
Our tests of the multitasking capabilities of Windows XP and Windows 2000 demonstrated that under the same heavy load on identical hardware, Windows 2000 significantly outperformed Windows XP.
Windows 2000 beat Windows XP to the Blue Screen of Death, huh? Back to the drawing board fellas!
Does Amazon know about this? Someone call Bezos!
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Linux is going in the complete opposite direction of Windows and getting faster with each version. If Linux is going to compete with Windows it better start getting slow, and getting slow fast!
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I've got a dual boot 2000/XP machine at work and XP uses less resources and is faster on almost everything. The only exception is games. XP blows away 2000. My Counterstrike fps went from 72 in ME to 45 in 2000 where as XP it only dropped to 69 fps (at home not at work where i have the same setup). And if any morons cant figure out how to get around a MS GUI they are dumber than I thought was possible. Windows is significantly easier to use than Linux.
With that said I'm in the process of porting all my companies server apps to tomcat (from asp/iis) b/c i'm not going to get locked in to the MS Licensing bullshit. They really fucked up with that BSA stuff.
However, since my clients are fucking morons i'm going to have to keep them on windows. Sad really, but it's their money not mine.
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