7-Zip / .7z -- yay or nay ??

Tews said:

7Zip ...

swarfega said:

Winrar isnt free whereas 7zip is. 7zip is the only program I use and I can do standard zip files.

thefabe said:

7Zip and winRAR when I have to.

Nburnes said:

Been using 7zip for a long time now and I like it much better than Winrar

What do you guys think compresses at a better ratio (smaller) ??
"and"
what do you think is faster for compress or un-compress ??

Also, try the self extracting archive - SFX - is really useful.

X64 Winrar is faster than 7-Zip

yowanvista said:

X64 Winrar is faster than 7-Zip

Yeah i use winrar 64b corp edt. (mainly)