It has typically been said that the more recent versions of Windows have become lazy and it is quite reasonable for users to expect each new Operating System (OS) to outperform previous versions. However, when Windows XP was fist marketed back in 2001, it was essentially designed to run just fine on three hundred MHz Pentium II CPUs having a mere 128 MB of RAM. It should thus come as no surprise to anyone that the Windows XP OS runs quicker on these days's processors. However newer OSs can optimize for the latest hardware and conjointly embrace more powerful options, but will this extra feature merely slow us down?
To seek out out, every operating system's performance was tested on a mean PC. The system was nothing particularly special by today's standards and consisted of an Intel twin core E5200 CPU with two GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD4550 graphics card. The Windows XP and Windows 7 were put in in that order, all were thirty two bit versions, on the machine's 500 GB hard drive and a variety of world benchmarks were ran to find out that OS was best.
There have been no surprises in the boot time test results with XP being slower than Windows 7. The transfer benchmarks delivered the same results. Windows XP was once more slower than Windows 7. When files larger than 1 GB were transferred, once once more Windows XP was slower than Windows 7. This proved true for application tests as well. Open a little PDF file or Excel spreadsheet and as was usual Windows XP was soundly crushed by the faster Windows 7.
You will be beginning to spot a trend here. Windows 7 provided completely excellent results, beating though coming back close to the performance of the Windows XP OS in nearly every category. This is quite exceptional considering that this is an operating system was still in beta at the time of the test. It's anticipated that the performance is even higher now that every one the drivers are absolutely finished.
If the benchmarks had been run on a PC, say maybe having one with only one GB of RAM, it's potential that Windows XP would have performed better than it did during this test. However, even for a reasonably modern basic PC, Windows 7 delivered the simplest all around performance.
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