Feb 28 2008
Speed tests fo Windows Vista, Vista SP1 and XP SP2
Principied technologies produced a few reports on speed tests for Windows XP and Vista.
From these tests it seems that Vista SP1 and XP SP2 have comparable speed on office tasks. Difference is around half a second for most of the tests, and only 9 out of 128 tests resulted in a difference of 1 sec or more; XP led in 8 of them. Vista SP1 was more responsive than XP SP2 and Vista after rebooting. Vista and Vista SP1 had substantially the same performance. Similar results were derived for home tasks, with comparable results from all the 3 systems. Home tasks included using Adobe Acrobat, Office Professional 2003 and Word (Adding and resizing a JPEG image was one of the tests). Office tasks ranged from using Excel (document management, charts, data handling) to advanced use of Word and Powerpoint, to Acrobat document management.
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