According to what I've read, part of the impression that Win7 is
faster than XP and Vista is a hangover from the fact that many
of the Win7 betas really were faster because they were more
streamlined. That stopped being the case as Win7 moved
closer to RC status and MS started adding back more stuff from
Vista.
From: tjpa <t...@tjpa.com>
Subject: Re: Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear
On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
Most of the people that have tried it seemed to think it
was pretty good for the OS itself. The biggest exception
was John Dvorak who said that it ran slower on his notebook
(?netbook?).
The review I cited was from a guy who I know is heavy into Windows and
his publication has an extensive testing lab (I have been there). John
has been doing this job for over a decade. He knows his stuff. He is
as solid a source as one is likely to encounter. He measures 24%
slower on a netbook for W7 via XP. TWIT does not do any serious
testing. Of course WFBs will pick the reviews that provide the results
they want.
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/30/splitting-the-atom-processor.aspx?s=gcndaily_021109
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