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| 06 May 2009 | #1 |
| | Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference. Quote: Improving performance is one of Microsoft's design goals with Windows 7, and many early reviewers have said that the new OS seems peppier than Vista. But tests of the Windows 7 Release Candidate in our PC World Test Center found that while Windows 7 was slightly faster on our WorldBench 6 suite, the differences may be barely noticeable to users. We loaded the Windows 7 Release Candidate on three systems (two desktops and a laptop) and then ran our WorldBench 6 suite. Afterward we compared the results with the WorldBench 6 numbers from the same three systems running Windows Vista. Each PC was slightly faster when running Windows 7, but in no case was the overall improvement greater than 5 percent, our threshold for when a performance change is noticeable to the average user. The largest difference was 4 points--102 for Vista versus 106 for Windows 7 on an HP Pavillion a6710t desktop. Our other two test machines showed similarly minor performance improvements: A Maingear M4A79T Deluxe desktop improved by 1 point (from 138 on Vista to 139 on Windows 7), and a Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop improved by 2 points, from 97 on Vista to 99 on Windows 7.  Read more . |
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| 06 May 2009 | #2 |
| | ehh, just wait till 7 is finalized then we'll see. |
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| 06 May 2009 | #3 |
| | I will guarantee, even if the numbers show that its not much faster, end users will still think its way faster. Little thing called the placebo effect. |
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| 06 May 2009 | #4 |
| | I'm doing just fine with both OS's  |
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| 06 May 2009 | #5 |
| | Well one of the things to consider is that on lower end systems that have to run XP because the older hardware is slow on vista, win 7 performance is much closer to XP and certainly better than vista on these lower end systems. |
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| 06 May 2009 | #6 |
| | i guess windows 7 may not be faster as we would have thought but the thing is its some what lighter as it runs well even in netbook!!! |
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| 06 May 2009 | #7 |
| | Yes, I don't see any noticeable difference , but you might appreciate the smaller footprint on a netbook. A lot of it is perception as opposed to reality - like many things in life. |
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| 06 May 2009 | #8 |
| | well on low end systems 7 is def. a lot faster than vista. however on modern system vista sp2 runs perfectly and its not slow. |
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| 07 May 2009 | #9 |
| | yes I agree, my current laptop would only be able to run vista basic (maybe) but I'm bale to run Windows 7 without a problem! [specs that matter: 1gb ram] |
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| 07 May 2009 | #10 |
| | I certainly find Win 7 much faster. |
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