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Benchmark Software For Windows 7 Rollout?
tdisalvo writes "We are doing a Windows 7 rollout and I will have to compare major PC vendors. I am looking for vendor-neutral tests that will give me the data I need to present an educated opinion to my CIO. Clear, pretty charts are nice since it is for C level execs, and we need to make it understandable for nontechnical as well as technical people. More specifically, I am looking for something that will clearly show how the same processor performs (better or worse) with a particular build, motherboard, RAM, power supply, etc. My plan is to get very similar machines from major vendors and see which one's build has the highest independent benchmarks. Something with which I could test multiple computers and report on the differences in score would be ideal."
As usual, free is an advantage.
I take it you ahve no real experiecne at this? that is they only thing I could think of as to way your post is so damn stupid.
Do you think they just put Win 7 on it, and that's it?
You got Win 7
then Office suite running.
Than a browser
then an older browser to support some legacy application
then you have the multiple versions of access you need to be able to run.
Plus iTunes. - In a lot of places, practicality will dictate that an employee gets to listen to music of some sort. iTunes goes with the iPod.
They will push Aero, so that needs to be supported by the hardware.
IN a corporate world, you should never have to open a desktop box. It'a almost always cheaper to swap it out.
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You haven't used win7 have you? 2GB is a min just to not get frustrated with the boot process. Then there is the stupid UI enabled by default that sucks up effects like made, almost making hardware graphics cards mandatory.
So you mean you first need to benchmark the benchmarking software with software that benchmarks benchmarking software? And so on?
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