{"id":1132,"date":"2009-01-04T22:33:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1132-performance-windows-7-fast-than-vista-vista-faster-than-xp.html"},"modified":"2009-01-04T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:33:52","slug":"performance-windows-7-fast-than-vista-vista-faster-than-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1132-performance-windows-7-fast-than-vista-vista-faster-than-xp.html","title":{"rendered":"Performance: Windows 7 fast than Vista, Vista faster than XP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second part of that statement interests me as much as the first. ZDNet\u2019s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ran some informal tests<\/a> on XP vs Vista vs Windows 7 beta 1 (as leaked, I presume), ranking them in order for a number of tasks. The results show that in general XP is slower than either Vista or XP on an AMD Phenom system with 4GB. Even on a Pentium dual core with just 1GB, which should favour XP, Vista was neck-and-neck with XP for speed (score of 57 vs 56, where less is better). Windows 7 came top in most of the tests.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done enough of these kinds of tests myself to know some of the pitfalls. Kingsley doesn\u2019t mention whether UAC was on or off in Vista, or whether Aero is enabled, or how many background processes were running on each machine, or how many times the tests were repeated and whether there was much variation. It would also be interesting to know timings, rather than simple ranking. Finally, Kingsley\u2019s tests seem overly weighted towards file I\/O. <\/p>\n

I\u2019d also be intrigued to see a comparison of Vista as on first release vs a fully patched system.<\/p>\n

Still, this does suggest (as I\u2019ve argued before) that Vista is better than its reputation; and it is wrong to assume that XP will generally out-perform it.<\/p>\n

That said, let\u2019s not forget the dire performance of those early Vista laptops with 1GB RAM, a full helping of third-party foistware, and Outlook 2007. Even today, Outlook 2007 can kill the performance of a high-end system, as this recent comment<\/a> shows:<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: vista<\/a>, performance<\/a>, xp<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second part of that statement interests me as much as the first. ZDNet\u2019s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ran some informal tests on XP vs Vista vs Windows 7 beta 1 (as leaked, I presume), ranking them in order for a number of tasks. The results show that in general XP is slower than either Vista or … Continue reading Performance: Windows 7 fast than Vista, Vista faster than XP<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,93,97,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-vista","category-windows","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}