XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps

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XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps

Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, 2004 @05:12PM 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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Someone in Baghdad by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 17:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

lost their boobs.

Boobs Over Baghdad, 2004. Thank You.
Which is best? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 17:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Which is best?

a mare's is faster
Windows SP2 Roxers!
windows SP2 Suxors
wot, I run Redhat SP3
Re:First postWERWA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 17:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This... moment... has waiting so long in coming! I finally made it!! *I'm not going to cry I'm not going to cry I'm not going to cry cry*

*sniff*

I'd just like to take a moment to thank all the little people who helped me along the way:

Your Mom
Your Mom's Mom

and maybe some others.
In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 17:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

SP2 kills babies
Re:hmm only 9% performance hit? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 19:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What's the difference between "anonymous coward" and "my username here." One's just as vague as the other one.

In other news, go fuck yourself cock holster.
Re:Gay ass ads by ggy · 2004-09-17 20:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Nah, real /.ers doesn't have a girl laying on the couch. And if one would, he sure as hell wouldn't be checking ./!
Re:Putty and SP2 (It's a business app, really! ;) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-18 00:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Putty is a business app, the only reason we still have windows desktops is because of our custom ERP garbage. Everything else I do in the shell on a linux box via putty, or just boot knoppix.