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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 22:44 |
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Vista/Win 7's network stack is noticeably better than XP's, true.. I run XP64, and both Vista and Win 7 (64-bit..) are noticeably slower at doing anything except networking, and even then the new stack only really helps for peer-to-peer, and even then once you've found all your peers it doesn't matter.
The shinier interface and taskbar previewing and other UI tweaks are pretty looking, but it's not enough for me.
I'm not sure what you mean about 'fucking with drivers'.. |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 22:14 |
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the networking on win7 is flawless compared to xp, plus you dont have to fuck with drivers, plus the taskbar is 100x more functional, plus window snapping is excellent, plus many other things
ultimately you need 64bit version to get the total performance increase, and win764 kicks the shit out of xp64 on all counts
so... thats how it is |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 19:57 |
zincthallinide |
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| Use Windows XP for a while, then go straight to Windows 7, and you'll see that Win 7 is still slower than XP. I'm sure more and more games will support DirectX 10+, and so I would eventually buy the cheapest version of Win7 just to run them, and maybe once I got the Core i9 or so I wouldn't care about the obvious lethargy and weird DRM-ness of Win7 and would ditch XP for good, maybe, or.. no |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 17:39 |
space captain |
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win7 is the shit, and vista is just shit.. anyone whos used them both for a good while knows this clearly
im happy MS got their shit together.. they about to take a big bite out of apple on this
so yay for competitive markets again |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 11:44 |
LittleMe |
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| Well said wtf_man. Those are important things which seem like subtleties but are important. |
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| Political freedom can only be preceded by economic freedom which is preceded by monetary freedom. |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 11:01 |
Burrito of Peace |
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| I believe that's called kernel evolution which is what we should expect. Once you learn how to do a thing, your next steps are learning how to refine those actions to make your end results better. |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 21, 2009, 10:39 |
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Tweaktown is testing the wrong shit.
There isn't going to be that much difference between Vista and 7 in those tests.
Try comparing resource utilization at desktop idle.
There is less memory usage in 7. Test with superfetch both on and off, and Aero on and off. Look at how many processes are running in both OSes. Look at how many handles are open. Look at how much the CPU spikes as the desktop is doing nothing. Look at the boot speed improvements (drivers loaded in parallel).
When you look at those things, one can see the difference, and know that Windows 7 is much more efficient. This is why 7 can run on netbooks and older hardware, and Vista can't.
This comment was edited on Aug 21, 2009, 15:43. |
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