Just for grins and googles, I did sample searches and found the following: Results 1 - 10 of about 4,350 for "windows 7 faster" http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=%22windows+7+faster%22&a q=f&oq=
Results 1 - 10 of about 98 for "windows 7 slower" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22windows+7+slower%22 A 44-1 ratio of the word "faster" over "slower." And, oh look!, a review where Win7 is faster than both Vista and XP SP3: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3187 It all depends on what you measure and how you measure performance. > -----Original Message----- > As you pointed out, testing used synthetic benchmarks. Vendors tend to > code for these well-known benchmarks. We expect real world experience > to > be worse. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************