Not sure, but I read somewhere that XP with SP3 was tested aa 50% faster than Vista with SP1 (both were betas of course) while doing scripted computing tasks.
35 seconds for XP versus 80 seconds for Vista to complete.. That's a huge difference.. -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ----- Original Message ---- From: FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 9:03:25 AM Subject: Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there? what they failed to say was 07 was 20% slower to start. >:-} fp At 06:48 AM 12/5/2007, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: >The press is going crazy about this. Unless there's been new testing since, >the original report of 10% faster was ONE test performed by ONE person on >ONE application suite--Office 2007. I very much doubt that SP3 is going to >bring sweeping performance gains across the board. > >Yay, Word is 10% faster. Who cares? > >Greg > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zaske >> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:55 AM >> To: The Hardware List >> Subject: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there? >> >> Are there any MSDN or Technet subscribers on the list that have tried >> the new beta of WinXP SP3? Its supposed to be much faster. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Warning: All prosecutors will be violated.