http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/ Engadget Comments for Windows 7 put up against Vista and XP in hardcore multicore benchmarks, XP wins http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
I don't care what Infoworld has to say about it, Windows 7 feels damn snappy compared to XP or Vista. XP is officially old.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
That just goes with the huge audience though.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/...
"you certainly won't lose anything by moving from Vista to Windows 7, and you may even gain a few seconds"
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Something tells me those statements aren't compatible. And it's a beta. You can't expect massive performance gains but the fact that it's already faster than it's predecessor before the final tweaking is fantastic (while looking sleeker).

And engadget stop tooting your own horn. You did not install windows 7 on everything you can find. You installed it on like 6 macbooks and a vaio p. That is not everything. How about you install it on some more windows machines, you know the things that the majority of people will be using it on and the things that actually have varying hardware.

Or how about you make the article more interesting and actually try and install it on everything. Like a bootable flash drive, or a puppy. Something actually interesting.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
It FEELS snappier because they finally started offloading some of the common tasks to other threads, but there is definitely more bloat as proven by the benchmarks. They just hid it in the other cores. So the DRM is still there, the Vista bloat is still there... they just allocated it to another process.

Cry that it's a beta all you want. They aren't going to cut it down THAT much by release unless they revert some of needless crunching going on in the background.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
People have said that about every new version of dos/windows since the beginning of time.. it is hilarious.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
There's lots of debugging code in the FRE builds of Windows 7 Beta 1. (I'm not talking about the CHK builds which are so loaded with debugging code that they might run as sluggishly as Windows Vista RTM).

A good chunk of this debug code will be removed from the RTM branch of 7 near the end of the development phase.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
you can't, however, compare it to XP, mostly because XP has been out for 9 years now.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
Second only to Compuworld in complete lack of credibility.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
LOL so very true and what happens when Microsoft and other software manufacturers do the unthinkable and "stop supporting XP". Oh no, then your XP is just as useful as that copy of 3.1.

I knew with an article like this the pro-XP anti-anything new crowd would jump on this and preach how great XP is. I havent been running XP for a while and after using Vista, i personally would not go back to using XP on any of my computers. On a side note, Windows 7 runs a lot better on my parents computer than XP ever did. I installed it for them on their Dell Dimension 2400, which if you look up the specs, has a Celeron 2.0GHz and i upgraded the ram to 1GB. They've never been more happy with what Win7 Beta has brought to their computer. Even cold boot time is improved over XP.

A note to Engadget, install it on some other computer configurations, i wanna see an in-depth on how it runs on say a single core processor that is not a netbook. I wanna see the average joe computer get Win7 on it, not your flashy MacBooks and Vaio P.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/]]>Jan 23rd 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
in recent news: water is wet.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
hurry up and announce a release date for this POS, so Apple can come back over the top and pull the covers off Snow Leopard.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
Since it melted.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 23rd 2009 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/I, personally, would choose Windows 7 or even Vista for the new features even if it would run slower.
The features of Vista and 7 make up for their sluggishness when compared to XP.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
For me, the primary task of an operating system is to run other programs, the programs I tell it to run. Therefore the OS that can run these programs better is the better OS.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Please stay with XP for the rest of your life then. If you don't want any upgrades at all, then why bother criticizing new things. If you want to be able to call people efficiently, don't get an Iphone. If you want to be able to simply cook, then don't get a microwave. But don't bitch at us when we all are running a hacked Windows 7 on our 5th gen Iphones while the Iphone is cooking my pizza. ]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/

]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
Actually, the more times I read your response, the less sense it makes.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
What you fail to realize is that you CAN (and probably should) uninstall elements of the OS you arent using. If you want it to run just other programs, then by all means, you should be trimming it down.

Once you cut out some of the bloat and luxury features, Vista/Win7 will run about the same speed as XP.

Look at it like this. You've got two cars. They have the same engines in them. However, one car weighs 1,200lbs less than the other. Which do you think is going to go faster?

The lighter one of course! However, if you remove the extra weight from the heavier car, you are back to getting identical performance.

Computing is the same way. If you cant handle the current load, get rid of what you dont need and try again. ]]>Jan 22nd 2009 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
Again, if features are not actually in use, why should they need to take any resources at all, HDD space aside? Imagine if you had a powerful car with a tow bar, so that you could add the extra capacity and weight on if needed, and if you didn't need it, you could simply unhook it.

I am aware of the ability to remove parts of the OS, if you're going to use Windows for music production, you pretty much need to anyway.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
chill down engadget. ]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Feb 6th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
I salute you!]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/Jan 22nd 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/windows-7-put-up-against-vista-and-xp-in-hardcore-multicore-benc/
So those applications have a whole lot of hardware to access, since XP does nothing with it, unlike Vista and 7.

It is absolutely no suprise that XP is still the leader at this stage.

What is a suprise is that 7 is still in beta and comes pretty damn close.]]>Jan 22nd 2009 7:12PM