Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show
Paul McDougall writes on InformationWeek:
In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's "downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft's newest operating system.More here.
Researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, have posted data from their most recent Windows performance tests -- and Vista, even after it's been upgraded to the new Service Pack 1 beta package, is shown to be a laggard.
"The hoped for performance fixes [from Vista SP1] that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized," said Devil Mountain researchers, in a blog post summarizing their results.
posted by Fergie @ 11/27/2007 02:44:00 PM
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XP SP2 outperforms Vista SP1
I tried this:
Computer A 4 years old Dell 510m with Windows XP SP2, Intel 2200 wireless card
Computer B new Dell with Vista and without SP1, Broadcom wireless card.
Computer C new HP with Vista with and without SP1, Broadcom wireless card.
Computer D new Dell with Vista with and without SP1, Intel 3945ABG
I copied 22000 files (18000 relatively small) and folders with 145Mb from the server to the computer one at a time.
I used a wireless AP Netgear WG102 connected to a LAN and a Windows 2003 server where I had the files.
The AP was 25 meters away with 3 walls between the AP and the computers.
Results:
A : 5 minutes
B and C without SP1: 25 minutes!
B and C with SP1: 19 minutes!
D without SP1: 18 minutes
D with SP1: 13 minutes
When I connected the 4 years old Dell with XP2 to 100Mbit LAN the time was: 2min 50s
As you can see: SP1 makes the computers copy files faster but it is a long way to XP with SP2 - I have not tested SP3 yet.
How can I make the Vista computers go faster? It´s a long way to the speed of XP!
/Roland Akesson
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