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Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the perception-is-reality dept.

Barence writes "The Windows 7 unveiling garnered largely positive coverage, with many hands-on testers praising it for being faster than Vista. But is it actually? To find out, this blogger ran a suite of benchmarks to see just how much quicker Windows 7 really is — and the results weren't quite what he expected. 'The actual performance gap between Vista and Windows 7 is ... nada. Absolutely nothing. Our Office benchmarks and video encoding tests complete in precisely the same time regardless of which OS is installed. [...] It's tempting to see this as a bit of a con. They've sped up the front end so it feels like you're getting more done, but in terms of real productivity it's no better than Vista."

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  1. Re:I don't understand by Renegade88 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This opinion just might be the stupidest thing I've read recently, but then again I haven't been on Slashdot long today.

  2. Re:Worse than that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think Microsoft made a big mistake with the "fade in" menus. Just turning them off gives the user the impression that you've made their machine "faster".

    I feel the same way about OSX. Except you can turn it completely off in Windows. Easily. Without a 3rd party tool, or a reghack/shell-script/trip to the command prompt to edit plist files.

    Also, it plays games the year they came out, runs Max and AutoCAD and isn't loaded with cruftware - though the resellers add plenty of that.

    The new Macbook looks nice, too bad it's only 50% faster than a $299 on sale emachines laptop that cost 20% as much.

  3. Re:It looks just like Vista now because... by ivan256 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hope they've started to get working on the shutdown menu. I hear that sort of thing can take a long time.