Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista

PLSQL Guy writes "Tests of the Windows 7 Release Candidate in a PC World Test Center found that while Windows 7 was slightly faster on our WorldBench 6 suite, the differences may be barely noticeable to users. The PCs tested were slightly faster when running Windows 7, but in no case was the overall improvement greater than 5 percent, considered to be a threshold for when an actual performance change is noticeable to the average user. One of the major complaints about Windows Vista was the fact that it was consistently slower than Windows XP. If Windows 7 can't significantly improve that situation, what chance does it have to convince people to move away from Windows XP?"

Comments

Re:Vista is Already Fast Enough

[jason.sweet]

At least be an informed poster on Slashdot, even if you are inflamitory.

Your post is very enigmatic. You want to break slashdot tradition by expecting an informed poster, but you still carry on the well-established tradition of failing to use spell-check.

Re:A pretty good one, actually

[MrKaos]

Where does Joe get his Ubuntu Live CD?

Where you get every other Linux distribution, at a newsagent or book store where they sell Linux 'How-to' magazines for $10 with the dvd.