Star Face Off: Windows vs Linux Real World RAM and Disk Tests
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 17:54 UTC
Benchmarks David Williams over at iTWire has done a comparison of Windows vs Linux. It is performed by doing functionally identical tasks in both the OSes. This comparison is not a fair one by any measure. The laptops running the Windows and Linux were different in the hardware config and the software used for the tests were comparable but clearly different (MS Office vs OpenOffice; IE vs Firefox 3).
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RE[2]: Definitely flawed
by WorknMan on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 19:16 UTC in reply to "RE: Definitely flawed"
WorknMan
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2005-11-13

As much as I dislike how Vistas accelerated GUI looks, I have to say that turning it off hurts GUI performance more than it helps.


Are you sure?
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/03/vist...

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RE[3]: Definitely flawed
by helf on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 19:37 in reply to "RE[2]: Definitely flawed"
helf Member since:
2005-07-06

ok, "perceived" performance ;) I'd rather it be a bit slower and smoother than fast and horrid.

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RE[3]: Definitely flawed
by helf on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 20:01 in reply to "RE[2]: Definitely flawed"
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2005-07-06

OK, I'm apparently an idiot. I haven't used Vista enough to notice the performance hits that article talks about. But the interface was smoother than in classic mode.

anyways...

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