Windows 7 performance whoops Vista and XP

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soumya

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The latest Windows 7 6965 build has been tested by ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, and his results show that Microsoft’s promise of a vastly improved Windows experience in Windows 7 is coming true – despite 6956 not even yet at official “beta” status.

As the clock ticks ever closer to the official Windows 7 beta, due to be showcased by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the January 7 pre-CES keynote, the word is spreading that Windows 7 looks like rocking in every way that Vista didn’t.

From low memory usage, fast boot times, an improved GUI, fewer services on startup, longer battery life, speedy operation and more, users of Windows 7 pre-beta 6801 and the unreleased (but available anyway) 6956 builds are impressed.

Kingsley-Hughes (K-H) didn’t say how he managed to get his hands on 6956, but seeing as it is available from torrent sites as an ISO (converted from the leaked Chinese VHD), you can decide for yourself what the source may, or may not, have been.

K-H has written two blog entries over at ZDNet, with the first post comparing Windows 7 6956 to Windows Vista RTM and SP1, and the second post also adding Windows XP SP3 to the list.

In all cases, bar the Cinebench test, Windows 7 whoops Vista and XP SP3’s binary backsides, a fantastic performance benchmark that simply makes users expect even better from the final release code. Given the beta nature of the WDDM 1.1 graphics drivers, the Cinebench test will hopefully thrash Vista and XP when the final code is released.

Given that 6956 is being touted by bloggers as being close to the final “beta” build, there is the question of what additional Windows 7 surprises Steve Ballmer will unveil at the pre-CES keynote event.

This is especially so due to the “other Steve”, Steve Jobs, rumoured to be unveiling much more information about Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 at the Macworld 2009 event, starting January 5th.

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Kl@w-24

Slideshow Bob
If Windows 7 can trump XP in performance and memory usage, it could turn out to be Microsoft's most successful OS ever!! :D
 
hell, then what are those beta versions out there? i've just downloaded a 680x build from torrent of 2.32 gb am i doin r8?
 

IronManForever

IronMan; Ready to Roll...
amitava82 said:
It's like saying Windows 98 runs on 64MB RAM where as XP takes min 256MB.
And thats what I wanted to clear out.
And yeah, about that running part. I have run Windows 98 on 11 MB RAM and browsed Internet through it. Windows XP whereas needs 26 MB to run. Inside Virtual Machines, that is.
 
well gys i r not gettin this crappy pre-beta version installed pls suggest a source to dwnload from
 

desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
And thats what I wanted to clear out.
And yeah, about that running part. I have run Windows 98 on 11 MB RAM and browsed Internet through it. Windows XP whereas needs 26 MB to run. Inside Virtual Machines, that is.

MS-DOS needs few KB's of ram to run.

Do we need to care about RAM these days? You get 1Gig of ram for 700 bucks. I have 2Gb of RAM, which was never fully utilized. I have used and still using Windows 7 and have posted few pics of it (running two dozen applications at the same time). Even then, the ram was not fully utilized and I surfed web and playing music, vidoes etc.

Even the current gen smartphones are having 256MB RAM. So, let's keep that memory thing away.
 

george101

Good Boy
ya i agree with desibond. even i have 4GB ram. lets c how windows 7 performs wen it comes to games and mutitasking.
 

IronManForever

IronMan; Ready to Roll...
Kl@w-24 said:
If Windows 7 can trump XP in performance and memory usage, it could turn out to be Microsoft's most successful OS ever!!
Kl@w-24 said:
IronManForever said:
@ Klaw-24
Windows 7 wont beat XP at Memory usage whatsoever..
Isn't that obvious?
I hope you know where it started from. :)

desiibond said:
So, let's keep that memory thing away.
Intrestingly, Memory footprint is one of the most important parameters determining an OS. Primarily the reason why Vista has been bashed by Anti-Microsoftians.

Lets bring this to an end. Period.
 

comp@ddict

EXIT: DATA Junkyard
MS-DOS needs few KB's of ram to run.

Do we need to care about RAM these days? You get 1Gig of ram for 700 bucks. I have 2Gb of RAM, which was never fully utilized. I have used and still using Windows 7 and have posted few pics of it (running two dozen applications at the same time). Even then, the ram was not fully utilized and I surfed web and playing music, vidoes etc.

Even the current gen smartphones are having 256MB RAM. So, let's keep that memory thing away.

Correction:

2GB Transcend Value 800MHz DDR2 is for Rs.1075 all time low price eh!
 

freshseasons

King of my own Castle
Aren't we like spoilt with over indulgences in choices of the software we are using now a day.Think of the good old days on windows 98 and run it had.
So many choices and each day getting better.
Is investing in a software really wise coz you can be so sure that it will not be around for a long time and the newer and better will be just in corner.
 
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gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
Anyway, if Windows 7 can provide me the features of Vista with acceptable performance, I don't see too many reasons for it to fail.

Even in Beta state we are getting better performance then Vista in many things. Things are just going to get better once the drivers mature to WDDM 1.1
 
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