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1. Comment - XP SP3 speed lead over Vista SP1 narrows under similar workloads

   (Nov 29, 2007 - 12:50 AM)

   Your report ends with ".....the performance gap narrows...to a MERE 82%."
   Oh ! So that's all right then, no problem there.
   
   Like heck !! Vista is the latest OS, which had billions spent on development and yet XP can show an 82% performance gap, to the good, over Vista. And remember, this report HAS taken note of the differences in software used in the original tests. And yet Microsoft still expect us to fork out for Vista. Why ? Just to take an 82% hit in performance ? They've got to be joking.
   
   Ah, but Vista has got lots of cool features, they say. Like what ? For most of us, we can add nearly all of Vista's "features" to XP.
   
   But what about the Aero effect on Vista ? Oh yes ? Nice and easy to set up or even set up by default ? No. Is it really any better than XP showing folders along the bottom of the screen ? No.
   
   Quite simply, Vista has got nothing over XP to make me want to go out and buy it.