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Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked

Posted by samzenpus on from the what's-the-word dept.

jjslash writes "Microsoft's PR machine has been hard at work over the past few months, trying to explain the numerous improvements Windows 8 has received on the backend. But are there real tangible performance differences compared to Windows 7? TechSpot has grabbed the RTM version of Windows 8, measuring and testing the performance of various aspects of the operating system including: boot up and shutdown times, file copying, encoding, browsing, gaming and some synthetic benchmarks." Lots of other sites are running reviews including: Infoworld, CNET, Computerworld, and Gizmodo, with very mixed opinions.

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  1. Paid for by ozmanjusri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lots of other sites are running reviews including: Infoworld, CNET, Computerworld, and Gizmodo, with very mixed opinions.

    You mean they're mixing the real opinions with the bought ones?

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    1. Re:Paid for by darkmeridian · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, anyone who disagrees with you is a sycophant or astroturfer. You speak the unimpeachable Truth and all others are Damned. Please spare me this BS. I don't disagree with you, necessarily, but I hate the demonization of those who disagree with you. Dissent is healthy.

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    2. Re:Paid for by epyT-R · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why the hell are you complaining about an OS you're not going to use?

      because he's joining a conversation about it on the internet to voice his opinion?

      If you don't want to use the software, why are you moaning about it? I'm not going to use it, either - there's no reason for me to upgrade at the moment.

      so you complain about him complaining about an os he's not going to use, but yet you feel the need to post about his post when you also are not planning on using it?

  2. No real difference by linebackn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So after reading through the entire article (wait, was I supposed to do that?) the bottom line is that there is no significant difference that any regular user would care about.

    I don't think shaving a second or two off of boot time is going to impress people when they see the user interface is "all different" now.

  3. Re:Real use of the OS by Scowler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How was I trolling, exactly? I'm not the one using the word "abortion" or the phrase "steaming pile of crap". I agree with you that this is not a compelling upgrade for the keyboard/mouse crowd, but then again, Metro wasn't really designed for that, was it?

  4. Re:Worse for Games by Hadlock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The new version of windows always sucks for games until nvidia and ati get around to tweaking things. Give it 6-8 months for everything to catch up. If you plan on installing Win8 on day one and expecting everything to work as good as, or better than the 36 month old Win7 ecosystem, you're insane.

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