Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Nov 2007 21:17 UTC, submitted by Research Staff
"After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS. Testing with OfficeBench showed a ~10% performance boost vs. the same configuration running under Windows XP with Service Pack 2."
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RE[11]: XP support must be extended
by MollyC on Tue 27th Nov 2007 04:32
in reply to "RE[10]: XP support must be extended"
Member since:2006-07-04
"Yeah, who needs to run actual tests to see if it's slower or not?
It's not like there are any new features that need higher-end hardware."
Name these features that require higher-end hardware for reasons other than speed/bloat? I thought each Mac OSX system released got faster and faster, so the system requirements should go lower and lower. Instead, the reverse is true, just like Windows *gasp*.
Sorry, but the reason OSX 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 got faster over time was that 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 were horribly slow, dog slow, and very slow, respectively. I've not seen any evidence of significant speed increases in 10.4 and 10.5 over 10.3, and I've seen no evidence that any version of OSX is faster than XP or even Vista.
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2005-07-22
Yeah, who needs to run actual tests to see if it's slower or not?
It's not like there are any new features that need higher-end hardware.