Performance comparison btw. Windows 7 Home Basic versus Home Premium

[cheesum]

Hi
Please advice on the performance comparison between
- Windows 7 Home Basic versus
- Windows 7 Home Premium
assuming if both uses the same 8GB RAM.

Just a hearsay...that Windows 7 Home Basic is lagging behind Windows 7 Home Premium in terms of performance assuming if both uses the same 8GB RAM. Please confirm whether this is true or not.

By the way, how to activate the Windows Aero in Windows 7 Basic???

 

[marsmimar]

Hello cheesum and welcome to Seven Forums.

Last question first. This tutorial may help enable Aero. Please note that there is no way to enable transparency on Windows Home Basic.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/53651-aero-enable-unsupported-editions-windows-7-a.html

As far as performance, I have not been able to find any specific "speed" tests to say one way or the other.

Difference Between Windows 7 Home Basic and Home Premium | Difference Between | Windows 7 Home Basic vs Home Premium

But if Basic and Home Premium are run on two identical machines (not just identical RAM, but also identical hard drive/hard drive speed, identical CPU, identical programs and apps installed, etc) I would give a very slight performance advantage to Basic simply because it doesn't have the same amount of features that Home Premium has. Fewer features to load usually equals faster performance. But I think any performance advantage would be so slight it wouldn't make any appreciable difference.

I did find some comments comparing Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional.

performance difference 7 home premium vs. 7 professional? - Microsoft Community

Of course, others may completely disagree with my thoughts and that's cool. Healthy discussion and debate is welcomed.

 

[cheesum]

Thanks for the reply.

Just one question. Where can we find patches to enable the full spectrum for Aero for Windows 7 Basic?

 

[marsmimar]

Thanks for the reply.

Just one question. Where can we find patches to enable the full spectrum for Aero for Windows 7 Basic?

You're welcome.

Since Basic does not natively support the full Aero spectrum, all I can suggest is that you try Google. Anything more than that and I'd probably be in violation of the Forum's rule # 6.

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/8-forum-rules-info-please-read.html

 

[cheesum]

ok. Thanks alot for your feedback.

By the way, can you help to recommend any GOOD GUIDE to installing SSD on a bone stock laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad Y580) which has Windows 7 HOme Basic factory installed on its HDD?

Thanks again.

 

[marsmimar]

These may help:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/149969-ssd-install-transfer-operating-system.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/113967-ssd-alignment.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/70822-ssd-tweaks-optimizations-windows-7-a.html

 

[bobafetthotmail]

afaik, the only Win 7 flavor that underperforms is Starter (was designed to run on netbooks). All others are exactly the same as far as performance goes.

That is, Basic does not run faster nor slower than Ultimate, although the latter is the more feature-rich (and expensive) of the bunch.

 

[gregrocker]

With the upper versions you're only paying for a few extra features that most consumers don't need. To be sure you can Compare Windows 7 Editions - Windows 7 Forums

 

[marsmimar]

afaik, the only Win 7 flavor that underperforms is Starter (was designed to run on netbooks). All others are exactly the same as far as performance goes.

That is, Basic does not run faster nor slower than Ultimate, although the latter is the more feature-rich (and expensive) of the bunch.

Not to get into a debate, but...

I have two absolutely identical Sony Vaio VPCEB47GM laptops. Both machines have the exact same programs installed and all programs are configured the same. They both have the same RAM, same size HDD, same GPUs, CPUs, even the same motherboards. All individual components are even from the same manufacturer. The only difference between the two machines are the serial numbers for the individual components and one is running 7 Home Premium x64 and the other 7 Pro x64.

The Pro machine consistently boots in 1 minute 05 seconds to 1 minute 15 seconds while the Home Premium boots in 45 - 55 seconds. Boot times were measured from hitting the power button to having a functional desktop. Machines are not on a network and boot times were obtained while machines were disconnected from the internet. I've tried different AC outlets in different rooms with no difference in times.

From this non-scientific "experiment" I've concluded that different versions of Windows 7 do perform differently. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Layback Bear]

Lee the computer that is 10 sec. slower I suggest getting rid of that piece of junk.
Believe it or not I notice boot and shut down time differences just by mute the sound. Just a couple of seconds. I need to get a life.

 

[marsmimar]

Lee the computer that is 10 sec. slower I suggest getting rid of that piece of junk.
Believe it or not I notice boot and shut down time differences just by mute the sound. Just a couple of seconds. I need to get a life.

Jack, are you making an offer? :roflmao:

 

[Layback Bear]

NO NO Lee, it's 10 seconds slow. What could anybody do with it. You could ship it to me and I would do some serious testing for the next 5 years and try to recover some of that 10 seconds. You pay the shipping and I will do the testing free. Putting all kidding aside one should choose a Windows 7 that suites their desires and needs and just come to this Forum. Between our Tutorials and members help it will run quick and smooth as it is designed with the hardware it has. A second here or there is no big deal. My cat takes 3 seconds to yawn. My computer shuts down in 2 can yawns.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

The Pro machine consistently boots in 1 minute 05 seconds to 1 minute 15 seconds while the Home Premium boots in 45 - 55 seconds. Boot times were measured from hitting the power button to having a functional desktop. Machines are not on a network and boot times were obtained while machines were disconnected from the internet. I've tried different AC outlets in different rooms with no difference in times.

When I think "performance" I'm not usually thinking about boot times, but how it goes after boot, I'm still accustomed to "press the button and go make a coffee" boot times as I work on XP as well.

The above is probably because the former has more services to start up (a bunch of stuff for servers, workstations and network logging for IT admins and whatever that on your personal device are useless). Try disabling unneeded services, I managed to cut up to 5-7 seconds of boot by disabling such useless things in Ultimate. (I was trying to improve performance on my netbook, not reducing boot times, and failed as unneded services seem to be put to sleep automatically after boot)

 

[cheesum]

Hi all,

ANother question....which is totally unrelated to this.

This is concerning whether we can swap the license key for windows 7 home premium (32 Bits) for windows 7 home premium (64 Bits).

I have with me a license key for a WIndows 7 Home Premium (32 bits). The funny thing is the license key comes in a box with only 1 CD ----------> being Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit installation CD ONLY instead of 2 installation CDs (being both the 32 Bits and 64 Bits).

SOmeone, somewhere in the web universe mention that we can use the license key meant for a Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bits to activate a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bits.

Can anyone confirm this???

 

[marsmimar]

Hi all,

ANother question....which is totally unrelated to this.

This is concerning whether we can swap the license key for windows 7 home premium (32 Bits) for windows 7 home premium (64 Bits).

I have with me a license key for a WIndows 7 Home Premium (32 bits). The funny thing is the license key comes in a box with only 1 CD ----------> being Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit installation CD ONLY instead of 2 installation CDs (being both the 32 Bits and 64 Bits).

SOmeone, somewhere in the web universe mention that we can use the license key meant for a Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bits to activate a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bits.

Can anyone confirm this???

Confirmed by our own alien administrator!

http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-...e-both-32-64-bit-windows-7-a.html#post2100254

 

[gregrocker]

Download and burn/write the other bit-rate installer from the links in Step 1 and 2 of Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 then follow those steps sameas for retail to get and maintain a perfect install.

 

[cheesum]

Wow...that is an incredibly fast reply...thanks alot...

Anyway, i just purchased a Lenovo Ideapad Y580 with Windows 8 ~ joining the "dark side of the force"....so to speak.

So, if things are not doing well with WIndows 8 (for the user interface...), then, this is my plan...
- for my older yet vintage laptop -----> yanked out the Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bits and restore back Vista,
- install Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits on my brand new Lenovo IdeaPad Y580,
- use the license key from the Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bits and activate the Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bits....

 

[gregrocker]

To install Win7 on a Win8 PC which has Secure Boot BIOS, follow the steps in Downgrade Windows 8 to Windows 7.

If installing in EFI mode becomes problematic, you can also follow these steps to Bypass UEFI to Install WIn7

 

[cheesum]

Hi all;
Another question. To speed up the laptop, i am planning to slap in an SSD and move the hard disk to the optical disk drive using a Caddy Tray.

THe SSD of choice is either:
- Intel S330 series or,
- Intel S520 series.
Which one would you recommend for a typical home user whereby the workload comprised off;
- storing and editing photos,
- playing and editing movies,
- working on multiple MS words. excel, access...
- playing games like Black Ops II
- surfing the net...
- other light to moderate workload...

Based on ANandTech review, apparently there is not much difference between S330 vs. S520 for a typical home user.
AnandTech - The Intel SSD 330 Review (60GB, 120GB, 180GB)

Also, what kind of storage should we look at?
- 120GB? or 180GB? --------> my budget only allows this range...
My applications are simple;
- Windows 7/ Windows 8
- MS office 2010
- photos and videos editing applications,
- all the programs that a home user is expected to have...
- a few games (similar to Black Ops II).
- recovery partition
- that is all about it....

Once again, thanks alot for your help.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

- storing and editing photos,
- playing and editing movies,
- working on multiple MS words. excel, access...
- surfing the net

This stuff is better kept on a hard drive (good choice on placing it in a DVD drive caddy) as it does benefit from a SSD but it's very minor benefit and it takes up a lot of space. The SSD is best used for programs, games and system.

You will be fine even with a 120 GB drive, as long as you keep data on the hard drive and programs on the SSD.