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XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps

Posted by timothy on from the tradeoffs-are-everywhere dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Mobile PC magazine installed XP SP2 on a bunch of notebooks and benchmarked them, finding that SP2 caused a 9-percent performance reduction in business productivity apps. While a couple of notebooks performed better, the majority took a 3- to 22-percent performance hit." For now, the story is just at the top of the Mobile PC website, but they promise more details in an upcoming issue.

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  1. so its come to this. by JVert · · Score: 5, Funny

    This should actually be posted in the politics corner. I gotta admit ./ is doing a lot better job at playing politics then certain US canidates. Seriously, a service pack to perform maintence and add some very usefull features. What is the general response? "SP2 broke my edonkey and made my girlfriend (online) break up with me." OH OH! now its slower with certain progams because they switched some compile flags that they should have enabled years ago!

  2. Isn't that how it always is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can either get your ass kicked by gamers for having a slow machine, or by hackers for having an insecure one.