Comments on: Windows 7: surprising benchmark results

By: Win7 Performance - Page 2 - Windows 7 Forums

Win7 Performance - Page 2 - Windows 7 Forums — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:23:19 +0000

[...] My real world experience is similar. Cannot notice any increase in speed/performance 7 vs Vista. Bit less disk activity and less disk space used by 7, that’s all. I suspect it would be different on an average laptop. Here are some more tests, if you like that sort of thing : http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05…hmark-results/ [...]

By: Paul Hughes

Paul Hughes — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:43:49 +0000

fancy user interface give the impression of speed but for
applications Windows 7 is dreadfully slow, particularly the 64-bit edition.
Let’s hope it’s only diagnostic stuff Microsoft have running in the RC version…

Or time to wait for Windows 8??

By: Axel

Axel — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:25:10 +0000

>Windows 7 RC’s dreadful performance in our Office test

This is what happens when testing preliminary operating systems with even more preliminary display drivers. Hint: Win7 inttoduces some changes in the driver model (WDDM 1.1) and apps using GDI gets a performance hit, probably due in a large part to the fact that current 1.1 drivers are *far* from being optimized. Try a Vista display driver instead, or wait for final releases before publishing “benchmarks”.

Win7 also paves the way for 2D hardware accelerated desktop apps, expect *stellar* jumps in graphic performance from upcoming versions of certain applications…

By: keithR

keithR — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:22:58 +0000

So, I got the DL.But,I have a swedish notebook with Swedish Vista HP and would love to upgrade this with the English 7 RC. Anyone know if this is a ’safe’ exercise? Oh, and I love Vista anyway, never a security problem in all this time of using. Ain’t know use have a fast machine that’s stuck in the garage!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:24:41 +0000

Could the speed reduction be down to the clean install having not had the time for optimisations regarding pre-fetch and moving the files to faster parts of the hard drive?

Microsoft have a list of things that are required to happen before bench marking, just wondering if these were followed to compare like with like?

By: Nicomo

Nicomo — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:47:57 +0000

Well its just another mugs game isn’t it, there really is nothing much new M$ have to offer but their pure need to earn money and drain what resources are left from IT departments in most companies. So many people are getting sacked and yet hey isn’t it amazing we can afford to upgrade to the latest ‘waste of money’ new looking OS and I really don’t know what is wrong with people today – we’re all way too greedy.

XP works – so why have XP mode in Win 7? Wake up and smell the coffee!

I’m a Human too

By: Zeevro

Zeevro — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:14:47 +0000

XP4eva, nuffsaid.

By: Windows 7 GDI performance: the big trade-off | PC Pro blog

Windows 7 GDI performance: the big trade-off | PC Pro blog — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:46:27 +0000

[...] I noted that our Office benchmark runs surprisingly slowly in the Windows 7 RC. Today I’ve been digging around for an [...]

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:31:06 +0000

I’ve installed the 64bit version to my HP 2730p. With a little bit of jiggling and one or two old Vista drivers for the graphics card & wacom digitiser and a beta version of the fingerprint recognition, I’ve got a pretty solid working machine that seems a *LOT* snappier than before (Vista 32 business).

However, How can this be a RC candidate with huge chunks of functionality missing?
Maybe I’m missing a trick here but where’s all the alternative keyboards and language IMEs that were in Vista Business? I know that the full ‘MUI’ is not ready yet and the virtual XP mode is also a separate download. All this just makes me wonder just what else is missing?

My main use of my tablet PC is document reading and as the device I use to learn (listen. read and write) Japanese. Without the Japanese IME, I’m afraid it’s back to Vista for me. This omission is surprising to me as Japanese is one the ‘core’ languages that has an RC release.

By: Gindylow

Gindylow — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:40:04 +0000

Missing a trick as ever by not putting on the XP equivalent tests.

Isn’t the XP mode humbling of MS enough to hint to PC Pro staff that XP should always be considered on this type of testing…