Now that the Windows 7 beta is out, the
benchmarks are coming fast and furious, and while 7's been previously found to best XP and Vista during
"real-world" tasks, it looks like XP is still the outright speed champ on current hardware. That's at least the word according to
InfoWorld, which pitted all three systems against each other in a suite of tests designed to suss out how each performed on modern multicore systems, and while we won't pretend to grok all the data, there's nothing complicated about the final results, which showed that "any illusions about Windows 7 somehow being leaner or more efficient than Vista can now be thrown out the window." Sure, there was some speedup -- 7 was 60 percent faster than Vista during the dual-core workflow tests -- but overall, 7's just slower on dual- and quad-core hardware than XP. However, there's a silver lining here:
InfoWorld says the slowdown is in large part due to the extra code Vista and 7 use to manage multicore processors, and as the number of cores increase, the corresponding performance gains are much bigger than with XP since they can be used more efficiently. Of course, by the time we're all sitting pretty with 48-core
Larrabee machines this all might be just a distant memory, so for right now we're just going to get back to
installing the Windows 7 beta on anything we can find and reveling in the glory of perceived speedups.
Read - Analysis I (against Vista alone)
Read - Analysis II (against Vista and XP)
Update: The author of one of our sources here has seen been released from
InfoWorld due to breach of trust.
InfoWorld maintains that Randall C. Kennedy's "insight and analysis [is believed] to be accurate and reliable."
posted January 22nd 2009 6:52PM
any good soul to show me where i can get a hold of that very cool wallpaper above?
SimbaDogg...I like my VHS very much....I can fastforward, rewind, and record whatever and when I want. Vista seems to be haunting me "security" warnings that I don't want....I never click..block this program. The amount of space wasted with redundancy is ridiculous.
What I don't understand is why Windows 7 will support x86 platform as most new hardware will be x64 capable,
It suggests to me they want to make it compatible with legacy hardware - although no-one will make any drivers to support this (Nvidia is the classic example - nforce3 and vista scandal anyone?)
If that is the case then the comparison between XP, Vista and Windows 7 is entirely valid - especially as its been said before a lot of of MS business is companies using the OS and their systems will be on the lower end and basically productivity on these systems.
While the comparison between windows 95/98 and XP aren't entirely valid considering XP does actually offer greater functionality and productivity, multicore support, more memory, whilst the only advantage of Vista and Windows 7 is DX10 and DX11.
Personally I would like to see MS license out its OS source code, so we can get rival companies actually trying to develop the most efficient and stable version - much like the multiple versions of linux we can get for FREE today.
Just another boring Windows OS with the same stupid viruses, spyware, greyware, malware, adware, and hackers. New platform? Phh! If it is a different architecture, why does XP, Vista, and 7 look like the same building with different coloured bricks? I think consumers are understanding Windows limitations and switching to Linux or Mac. Just my thoughts.
Well i have XP Pro x64 (so called Superior Windows XP x64 March 19 edit) whit directx 10 & 9 ( u can change this) - it's so much faster then Vista or v7 that it's hard to even compare. - in some other platform maybe the difference is not so huge but what i can see...
If u got this iso, u can edit it whit the tools it comes and make it even more better... then later you just place the legal key inside the installation - then everything is legal again :)
Windows 7 remind me too much of windows vista, everything about it, i'm afraid to upgrade and get the same results.
i just bought a gateway fx 3 weeks ago thinking i could downgrade to xp 64 bit. But the sound driver is vista only,
and i cant find one anywhere. So i am stuck with vista!!!!
Also all these remarks on how vista is better os make 0 sense.
The only thing i know is that xp runs every application i have ever used faster, is much more user friendly, uses less ram(they have versions now running off 64mb of ram), and runs games much smoother.
Vista is just for looks i believe and i hate how you have to allow everything you click, so dumb.
And to everyone posting about how we should go back to dos and windows 3.2, you know exactly what we are saying about xp so stop blowing it all out of proportions. The reason most like xp is because we have been raised on it, and the truth is it really does run nicer than all the new os's. Also it runs 99% of modern day applications, and most business's run off it, so why would they switch over to vista when they have a perfectly fine os that runs great?