Comments on: A poor SP1 comparison (updated)

By: Ron Hamilton

Ron Hamilton — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:18:40 +0000

I use Vista and think its great. Check ZDNet for SP1 comments.
I am very pleased with the speed and performance3 of Vista. Can’t wait for the upgrade.

Ron H.

By: Ajm

Ajm — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:43:44 +0000

So basically you’re posting a rant, ranting about somebody else’s posted rant. Clever you.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:00:19 +0000

Games are listed under your “most substantial performance gains”… this is a good thing. That and most of the other things in there are the main reasons I’m not in Vista right now. My processor just can’t take both games and Vista at once.

I’m overdue for an upgrade in that department… it’ll be interesting to see whether the speed gap goes away or not with a new processor + Vista SP1 + XP SP3, or at least if I can get > 10 fps in Half-Life 2 under Vista.

By: claudio

claudio — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:05:31 +0000

they used a framework that’s like a virtualization system

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:47:42 +0000

I can’t stand microsoft products anymore.. In my opinion Microsoft Office is the only thing that they did well..
I got impressed by the new mac os x Leopard…And thats why I moved to apple’s OS..
You should do what this mac ad says: give up on vista!
weshow.com/us/p/24256/apples_ad_dont_give_up_on_vista
Apple FTW!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:53:05 +0000

Sharktooth – as that quote shows, I wasn’t the only one to misunderstand the testing environment of original article. I have since updated my post to reflect this. However, that doesn’t change the other faulty aspects of the comparison.

By: Sharktooth

Sharktooth — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:13:46 +0000

i think you should read things before making those false claims:
[quote]Research Staff said…

mog0,

I think you’re confusing the two articles. In the “What Intel Giveth” posting we indeed used VMware for some of the tests. However, the SP1 vs. RTM testing was all done on native hardware, specifically, a Dell XPS M1710 notebook with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB DDR-2 667MHz RAM.

RS[/quote]

By: Windows Vista Slow Adoption is Still News

Windows Vista Slow Adoption is Still News — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:39:33 +0000

[...] A poor SP1 comparison As I read up on the latest TechMeme news this morning I saw a headline that didn’t seem quite right, “Vista SP1 a Performance Dud” it said. Intrigued, I clicked on the link and discovered an entire blog devoted to rather poor performance testing and entirely unhelpful rants. more Windows Vista [...]