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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 06 August 2009 21:15 : \____
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>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>>> Windows 7 RTM Gets Benchmarked, Results Are Mixed
>>>>
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>>>> | Interestingly, the results were mixed. Boot times, despite dedicated
>>>> | tweaking from Microsoft were slightly worse than in Vista SP2 or XP SP3
>>>> | (by
>>>> | over a second). Shutdown times, though, showed much improvement over
>>>> | the slow XP, and even some improvement over Vista.
>>>> `----
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http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+7+RTM+Gets+Benchmarked+Results+Are+Mixed/article15892.htm
>>>> It's starting to be a disaster like Vista.
>>> Since the "headline" and your "conclusion" are so far apart, Roy, you
>>> need to elaborate!
>>
>> This shows that Vista 7 (in RTM) is still obese. GNU/Linux does not have
>> this problem and a similar benchmark from last month showed Ubuntu in the
>> lead (among all tested systems).
>>
>
> From my own experience I can confirm that Linux does perform a bit
> better but performance of Windows 7 is quite acceptable unlike Vista
> prior to the SPs.
>
> The focus on performance also fails to focus on a major issue which is
> the apps that run natively on the platform such as Outlook 2007 combined
> with Exchange 2007, OneNote, iTunes, Zinio, etc. When you can't use the
> programs that you want to use a slight increase in performance of the OS
> is irrelevant. Not a single Linux Distro I have used makes use of a
> fingerprint reader like Windows does. The Tablet PC and inking
> experience is also unmatched. Setting up a Media Center in Windows is
> simple in comparison to Linux. All of these things end up being more
> important than a slight increase in OS performance.
Which Media Centre did you try? Name it. Maybe there's a simpler way you've
overlooked.
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