Star Vista SP1 a Performance Dud
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2007 08:01 UTC, submitted by Research Staff
Windows Some testing by the exo.performance.network research staff shows that SP1 provides no measurable relief to users saddled with sub-par performance under Vista.
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RE[9]: Vista feels fine....
by kaiwai on Tue 20th Nov 2007 15:33 UTC in reply to "RE[8]: Vista feels fine...."
kaiwai
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2005-07-06

The fact that the overhead of DRM not just affects his media experience but degrades the whole operating system experience.

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RE[10]: Vista feels fine....
by google_ninja on Tue 20th Nov 2007 15:41 in reply to "RE[9]: Vista feels fine...."
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2006-02-05

I think cyclops would rather be slowly tortured to death then use Vista, and I wouldn't doubt it if you felt the same way kaiwai. What sort of experience with the OS are you basing those claims on?

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RE[11]: Vista feels fine....
by kaiwai on Tue 20th Nov 2007 16:00 in reply to "RE[10]: Vista feels fine...."
kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

I think cyclops would rather be slowly tortured to death then use Vista, and I wouldn't doubt it if you felt the same way kaiwai. What sort of experience with the OS are you basing those claims on?


Having run Vista Ultimate and Vista Business. Its a step backwards. I bought a MacBook with 2 gigs, it was pre-loaded with Tiger, I upgraded to Leopard, and I have noticed no slow downs, and in some scenarios, improved performance.

When I went from Windows XP to Windows Vista, on the same machine (Toshiba laptop), there was an instant downgrade in speed - on a machine loaded with 2 gigs of memory. When I upgrade, I don't expect a downgrade, at worse I expect speed parity.

I don't expect much, and the fact that Microsoft couldn't even deliver speed parity with Windows XP on the same hardware speaks volumes about the stupidity of their design manifesto - 'screw today's hardware, focus on tomorrows!'. So customers of today are screwed, and those of the future won't see any benefits of their new hardware because its all gobbled up by the operating system.

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