Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Mar 2007 17:24 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
When Windows Vista was released in early 2007, a significant amount of attention was given to the new user interface called Aero, that sets out to give Windows a slicker look and feel and promises more fluid operation. But eye-candy aside, how does the new Aero interface stack up compared to Windows XP and Mac OS X in terms of low-level user interface efficiency? "Windows Vista increases the amount of user interface friction of the operating system. Windows XP and particularly Mac OS X performed better than Windows Vista in these benchmarks."
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2005-08-11
Vista doesn't crawl on my system, which is an Athlon XP 2800+ with 1G ram and an ATI X1650 pro. It's almost as fast as XP. It thrashed alot at first, as the different caching subsystems and the indexer did it's thing, but it's smooth now. On the same hardware, I had a hell of a time getting beryl to run acceptably under Kubuntu Edgy. So, I guess our experiences are not universal. Who knew? :-)