My take on benchmarks....
They have become so over used, so mainstream that they are almost useless.
Very true for the most part.
Although, as a minor and by no means conclusive tool, I found Vantage to be somewhat useful when testing out a GPU OC by monitoring how much the framerate fluctuated on certain tests. When it remained steady, you knew you were good @ a given voltage but when it struggled to maintain steady frames, you knew you were at the limit and could potentially notice the same fluctuation in games.
But as far as browser benchmarks are concerned, I definitely wouldn't base my preference on them.
It really does boil down to feature preference and perception.
On my system + connection, Chrome does feel 'snappier' overall; but try as I might, I just don't feel the love. IE9 is pretty decent, but it's just not for me. I switched back to Opera 10/11 when FF 3.6 started to feel too sluggish, but I have since switched back to FF 4 as my daily browser.
That decision had nothing to do with a synthetic browser benchmark.
If you are buying based solely on benchmarks, your gonna lose in the end.
Yep. At best, they should be used as a rough guide - not gospel.
I never had any problems with fuzzy fonts on my machines, but I know a couple of people who did.
I don't have the font issue either on my two installations, but
I do have it in one of my virtual machines. So it does exist, but it's not universal.
Windows 7 manages its memory perfectly well.
That it does. They may have been effective in the W9X/XP days, but not anymore.
