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."

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Re:Mp3 Locking?

[Anonymous Coward]

You *could* but remember this tale of forewarning:

"I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Dell w/ Windows 7 x64 (w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows boxes, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a PC that has run faster than its Apple counterpart, despite the PCs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Windows 7 is superior.

Flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Windows 7 box over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems."

What a dolt

[Toll_Free]

Or maybe it's that Office didn't get any faster (real probability, since he ran the same version on both OPERATING systems) and his graphics adapter (which would interface with either DX or GL, neither of which was updated in either OPERATING system release).

IOW, this guy is an idiot, who thinks applications are the operating system.

No shit, sherlock. Opera didn't get any faster on it, neither did Calc.exe

--Toll_Free

You Mean Microsoft Lies? Wow, who saw that coming?

[gadlaw]

My god, color me surprised (not) - they had the celebrities and commercials and write ups by the usual media whores saying how great Vista was and any objective person, indeed most all of us not being paid by Microsoft smelled that turd a long ways off and so they took the same turd (euphemistically speaking) and are wrapping it up in the same DRM filled, user raping package and saying it's sunshine in the box. The usual paid celebrities and media whores are saying wow, this time Microsoft did it right and everything is hunky dory now and it's okay you can switch over! And it's still a turd with a new ribbon around it. Great. Thanks Microsoft, remember when you innovated and didn't completely screw over the customers? I guess not.