Vista or XP?

I don't know, guy, I never ran any kind of objective test. It boots faster, programs load faster, things w/in programs open faster, programs switch faster, firefox loads pages faster. What can I say? It's faster.

H

 

Have read XP SP3 is in beta now and it makes machines much faster.

Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 2007-11-23 21:17:46 UTC, submitted by Research Staff
"After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS. Testing with OfficeBench showed a ~10% performance boost vs. the same configuration running under Windows XP with Service Pack 2."

 

H,

Is this on exactly the same hardware?


Its not the result being experienced by others:



<img src="http://www.xpnet.com/images/xpsp3.png">

 

Let me take a wild guess, you have a newer, faster computer.

Of course it is faster. But if you test XP and Vista on the SAME new computer and use it for trading, XP will be faster.

OP didn't clarify what he is planning to use the laptop for, but we have to assume that for trading....

 

Something does not add up here. Not flaming you in any way, but the statement is unbelievable.

Anek

 

I certainly hope he took that into account. Nobody would be lame as to compare Vista on a current machine to XP on a 2-year old one. Right?

 

Ok, guys, enough. Last time - same machine, same hardware, faster. Sorry. I'm thru now.

H

 

Great thread - lots of real experience here instead of flaming from Pro Vista users earlier in the year.

After I got my Vista bugs worked out (disabling the user account controls) I never had any trouble with the operating system. No glitches, blue screens, etc.

This is on a HP laptop, dual core, 2 GB ram. I upgraded from an old Gateway laptop with laptop with half the memory and speed. The HP with Vista is a sled compared to the older machine with XP. I still had to get a RAM expander for heavy use times.

Maybe Vista wouldn't be as much of a sled on desktop with a faster processor and RAM but for a laptop - to do it over I'd go XP hands down, no question.

I hope the recent MAC commercials bashing Vista problems will give MS a kick in @ss to slim down memory useage problems.

 

Thanks for all the replies guys. Yes, the laptop is to be used for trading while traveling. I think I will try to get an M90 from Dell with XP. XP it is.

 

I have run all versions of both.

XP Pro SP2 32&64 hands down over all versions of Vista.

2000 runs solid as well