ZDNet Blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tested one of the latest beta versions of Wndows 7 on two different machines. One machine had 4 GB of RAM and fast processor, the other machine had 1 GB of RAM and a 2-3 year old processor.
On ALL tests, Windows 7 outperformed XP and Vista by almost a 2 to 1 margin and in some cases even more than that. Kingsley-Hughes writes extremely interesting articles over at ZDNet and might be someone you want to keep track of from time-to-time.
The test was not conclusive.
They failed to mention which machine XP was running on (the 4 GB ram machine, or 1?) in addition to several other things such as whether they were running XP 32 bit against W7 64 bit.
Additionally, they failed to even mention size or speed of mem in the graphics cards, & the speed of the harddisk.
I read the comment about W7 being almost 2 to 1 faster in lots of cases, & this sounds suspiciously like they were using a 5,400 RPM drive, or using XP on the older & slower machine, while using W7 on the 4 GB ram machine & with a 7,200 RPM drive.
A 7,200 RPM drive will be 2 x faster at least, reading AND writing compared to a 5,400 RPM drive, so it is no surprise to me to hear this supposed “blowout” by using slow pieces of hardware for XP.
What is XP supposed to do, just magically up the write speeds of the 5,400 RPM drive to match the newer 7,200 RPM drive?
You pit XP against W7, at least do it using equal processor speeds, & if you use dual core on 1, make it on both as well.
Make sure they are either both intel or both AMD & both the same processor class (not P4 compared to Celeron, etc)
Make sure both have the same speed harddisk & same speed CD/DVD rom. The same maker of CD/DVD if possible, since they can vary widely by maker in cache sizes etc. Same goes for the harddisks.
Now, having the hardware as closely to equal as possible, THEN try pitting XP against W7 & it will slaughter W7 like the bloated beast it is.
Why do you even post lopsided articles like this?
IF you actually read the article, Adrian installed the different OSs on the same machines and did the tests. He also states that he is not a lab nerd with lots of fancy benchmarking. He simply went through some real world tests to come up with his conclusions.
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