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Originally Posted by Nor Alien
Pass... If I wanted to slow down my comp to half its speed.... sure install vista... LOL Even if you had the latest in hardware, it still takes up massive amounts of system resources for its eye candy.... Bloated!!!!??? LOL Theres talk about abandoning vista altogether... and sales are still no-where near that of XP's when it first came out.. although the choices at that time where upgrade to XP or stay with 98!! lol Oh well I guess I'll wait to see what the new sp1 and further updates bring to the table before I make the final jump!!
Nice to know that they're looking into these problems... Maybe there's hope after all!!  Thanks also for posting this update |
Not true .. Half speed? The only bad theing about vista SP1 is that it slowed down vista enough to remove it from the top spots ..
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1772
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XP Professional:
* XP RTM
PassMark rating: 1001.4
* XP SP2
PassMark rating: 891
* XP SP3
PassMark rating: 990.8
Vista 32-bit:
* Vista RTM
PassMark rating: 1002.4
* Vista SP1
PassMark rating: 972.3
Vista 64-bit:
* Vista RTM
PassMark rating: 1183.1
* Vista SP1
PassMark rating: 1128.8
you'll notice that Vista scores higher until vista sp1 is installed. The top 3 spots in the passmark test were the RTM versions of vista ..
The only real issue with vista remains the lack of support due to lack of adoption. I use Vista x64, but even now, when I build a system for someone, if it's a 3GB ram or less setup, I still push them into XP.
I think the biggest issue has been the hardware requirements. Vista needs a lot, but if you feed it, it works well.