Posted on 11/27/2007 1:54:17 PM PST by Zakeet
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests, regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer, says Devil Mountain Software.
In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's "downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft's newest operating system.
Researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, have posted data from their most recent Windows performance tests -- and Vista, even after it's been upgraded to the new Service Pack 1 beta package, is shown to be a laggard.
"The hoped for performance fixes [from Vista SP1] that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized," said Devil Mountain researchers, in a blog post summarizing their results.
The researchers compared patched and unpatched versions of Vista and XP running Microsoft Office on a dual-core Dell notebook. The results revealed the time taken to complete Office productivity tasks such as the creation of a compound document and presentation materials.
Devil Mountain researchers ran a mix of tests comparing existing versions of the operating systems -- the original Vista and XP SP2 -- and versions that had been patched with the latest updates -- Vista SP1 beta and XP SP3 beta. Tests were also run on machines with 1 Gbyte and 2 Gbytes of memory.
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests -- regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer. In fact, XP proved to be roughly twice as fast as Vista in most of the tests.
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Sadly, almost all the Win98 boxes around here are gone (given away to folks who couldn't afford them) -- down to three. Quite reliable.
Because AutoCAD, DCA, and the wide network GPS processor all need to access command.com on a FAT partition, but command has to reside on the OS partition.
Yup. Like my Toshiba GigaBeat MP3 player with its built-in DRM.
Solution: install open-source Rockbox. Now it plays MP3s just fine. (Okay, I don't have 19 hours play time anymore, I think it's down to 12-14 with the months-old development version I'm still using, but that's okay.)
I start from Win 98SE, running IE5. The first series of patches that run enable loading IE6 SP1, and then all the rest of the updating is pretty much automatic using the fully patched IE6. Actually, I have more trouble tweeking XP Pro into shape than 98SE. Xp has massive difficulties with drive letter assignment if you're running more than one hard drive on the mother board controller. Sometimes it screws up if you plug in a Kaser, or a One Touch drive. 98SE is pretty stable and predictible after that last patch that they sent out at the end of 2005. If they had done that before coming out with XP I don't think that many people would have been looking to 'upgrade.'
I'd tried out Wine in some earlier Linux distributions years ago and it just didn't work. But recently I needed to install a Windows app, followed pretty much the same directions you were given and to my surprise -- it just worked.
Kubuntu (the KDE desktop is quite Windows-like) 7.04 is the best I have seen yet, and the second (also 6.06) that just installed & ran.
(I did have to switch to an HP printer, though. The LexMark that was poorly supported in 6.08 is not supported in 7.04. But HP supports Linux drivers.)
I’ll install it tomorrow a.m. I may be back with questions.
Having trouble saving files to my hard drive. Can't find items in control panel like I used to. Hard to decipher. I'm sure I'll eventually get used to it, but why did they make it so fricking different?
Having trouble saving files to my hard drive. Can't find items in control panel like I used to. Hard to decipher. I'm sure I'll eventually get used to it, but why did they make it so fricking different?
The “sudo” means run a command as the superuser, which is why it will prompt you for the system password the first time you use it in a session. When you install wine, you do it as the superuser for access to all the things on the computer required to add new software. When you type “sudo apt-get install wine” (notice I previously forgot the “install” part of apt-get), you are telling Ubunutu to download the wine application and install it as the superuser (make sure the computer is connected to the Internet).
Note that this is all done from the command prompt, which you can access in Ubuntu by going to “Applications->Accessories->Terminal”.
Yup. Dial up is all that is available in my area of BFE.
Well, My 98 still works fine and all you can get in this area is dial-up.
Not much need for anything else until I can get high speed.
"Panda Internet Security 2008" includes a re-issue of 2007 on the disk, that does everything but the 'Backup' and 'PC Tuneup' functions. There are plenty of very good free backup and tuneup programs for 98 available. 98SE is the stablest GUI OS that there is for any platform, and there is more software out there for it than you'll ever use, unless you are a game fan that has to have the latest.
You can get satellite broadband from Covad. It’s solid and trouble free.
I forget which one but they wanted about $80 a month plus $400 to start for the box.
Heh...I clicked on this thread just to reassure myself that you’d posted that image... ;-)
You may want to ping a few of these folks too if you have questions as I tend not to be around a lot during the day. But I'll try to keep an ear turned...
Had no choice on new Gateway ordered.
Wonder if I should uninstall it. Guess I could run it for a few weeks and see.
Will load UBUNTU on it too.
LOL
Be very careful to only load Vista drivers on any new hardware. It really is problematic if you don’t.
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