Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Jan 2009 12:58 UTC
Even though the EULA accompanying the beta build of Windows 7 prohibits the publication of benchmark results (good luck enforcing that one, Redmond), everybody and their dog will still compare the Windows 7 beta to Vista and Windows XP. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is one of those benchmarking the beta, and according to his results, the Windows 7 beta beats both Vista and XP in just about every scenario.
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2006-01-06
I agree that it's nice for software to be able to scale up and down, as needed, but your statement that it "runs relatively fine on 256mb RAM" is highly debatable. It depends on what you're doing with the software. Sure, if you simply boot the machine, and leave it idle, fine. Or run a simple document editor. But you're not going to be able to do any video-editing, for example, play Crysis, or use it to drive a HD home theatre. Even browsing the Web with Firefox can easily chew up a hundred megs of memory, and your poor little box is going to do nothing but page, page, page, page, page.