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Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter?
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."
95 ran fine on 32MB of RAM, 98 ran on 64 or 128....XP, you'd better have 512, and I guess Vista is best with at least 2048. Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that the requirements have gone up.
I ran XP fine on 224MB RAM, no slowdown at all, but I've seen Vista hang for a few seconds every couple of minutes using nothing but notepad and 2 firefox tabs (without flash or Java) on 2GB RAM, that is a serious problem