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ehh, just wait till 7 is finalized then we'll see.
Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Posted: 06 May 2009
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.
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.
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