Unless you've had your
head in the sand you've heard (or seen) that Vista is slower than
XP. I thought I would run a few benchmarks too see just how much
slower it is.
As you'll see from the
results below, Vista stripped down with no apps installed can't come
close to the speed of an XP machine with a full
compliment of apps (except the ZA Firewall was disabled). To make it even more significant, the drives
that XP is installed on shares space with Suse 10.2. It has 5
partitions on the OS drives vs. 1 for Vista.
Vista is slower there is
no doubt. If you add in the outrageous cost and the annoyance factor
there is only one conclusion for me.
As it stands right now, Vista is a pig.
A pig with lipstick and a
wig, but a pig nonetheless.
I'll let you look at the
benchmarks and decide for yourself. Then gimmie a shout and tell me
what you think about Vista. (
vista@tweakhound.com )
The overall scores improved but this area
(tweaking) still needs
work.
Rant about PCMark...
I haven't run PCMark in
quite some time. The newest version of
PCMark requires you to run the "new style" start menu and setting
appearance adjustments to "best appearance". IMHO this clearly interferes
with the tweaks in that the scores for both Vista Tweaked and XP
Tweaked would/should be higher if this was not so. That really pis,
ahem, ticks me off.
|
XP Tweaked
installed applications |
|
Program | Version |
|
7-Zip 4.42 | |
|
Acronis Disk Director Suite | 10.0.2117 |
|
Acronis True Image Home | 10.0.4871 |
|
Adobe Help Center 2.1 | 2.1 |
|
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 | 7.0 |
|
Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 | 5.0 |
|
Adobe Reader 8 | 8.0.0 |
|
Adobe Shockwave Player | 10.1.4.20 |
|
Anapod CopyGear (remove only) | |
|
Anapod Explorer (remove only) | |
|
ATI - Software Uninstall Utility | 6.14.10.1016 |
|
ATI Catalyst Control Center | 1.2.2545.38916 |
|
ATI Display Driver | 8.33-061220m-040997C-ATI |
|
Audio Conversion Wizard 1.8 | 1.8 |
|
AutoUpdate | 1.1 |
|
AVG 7.5 | |
|
Calculator Powertoy for Windows XP | 1.00.0001 |
|
CCleaner (remove only) | |
|
CleanCache 3.5 | |
|
CmdHere Powertoy For Windows XP | 1.00.0001 |
|
Cool Edit 2000 | |
|
Creative Audio Console | |
|
dBpoweramp [Calculate Audio CRC] Codec | |
|
dBpoweramp FLAC Codec | |
|
dBpoweramp Monkeys Audio Codec | |
|
dBpoweramp Mp2 and BwfMp2 codec | |
|
dBpoweramp mp3 (Fraunhofer IIS) Codec | |
|
dBpoweramp Music Converter | |
|
dBpoweramp Ogg Vorbis Codec | |
|
dBpoweramp WavPack Codec | |
|
dBpoweramp Windows Media Audio 10 Codec | |
|
DH Driver Cleaner Professional Edition | Version 1.5 |
|
DivX | 6.0 |
|
Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) | 8138 (Build 214) |
|
EVEREST Ultimate Edition v3.50 | 3.50 |
|
Ext2Fsd 0.31a | 0.31 |
|
Hauppauge WinTV2000 | |
|
HoverIP v1.0 beta | 1.0 beta |
|
Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP | 1.00.0001 |
|
Intel Matrix Storage Manager | |
|
Intel(R) PRO Network Connections | |
|
IrfanView (remove only) | |
|
IsoBuster 1.9.1 | 1.9.1 |
|
iTunes Library Updater | 1.2.2 |
|
iTunes | 7.0.2.16 |
|
IZArc 3.6 | 3.6 |
|
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 10 | 1.5.0.100 |
|
jv16 PowerTools 2006 | |
|
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 | 1.1.4322 |
|
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 | 2.0.50727 |
|
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 | 3.0.04506.30 |
|
Microsoft Calculator Plus | 1.0.0 |
|
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 | 0.0.0.0 |
|
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 | 12.0.4518.1014 |
|
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 | 11.0.7969.0 - Office 2003 SP2 |
|
Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 | 12.0.4518.1014 |
|
Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup | 1.10.0.0 |
|
Microsoft Photo Info | 1.0 |
|
Microsoft Tool Web Package:WntIpcfg.exe | 1.0.0.1 |
|
Mozilla Firefox (2.0.0.1) | 2.0.0.1 (en-US) |
|
Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5) | 1.5 (en-US) |
|
Mp3/Tag Studio 3.5 (beta 16) | 3.50.16 |
|
Nero 7 Ultra Edition | 7.02.4712 |
|
NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder | 1.00.0000 |
|
PerfectDisk | 8.00.048 |
|
PowerDVD | |
|
PrintFolders 2.21 | 2.21 |
|
QuickTime | 7.1.3.170 |
|
ReNamer | 4.21 |
|
Roxio Content 9 | 9.0.021 |
|
Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 Suite | 9.0.088 |
|
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS | |
|
SyncToy | 1.4 |
|
Tweak UI | |
|
WebFldrs XP | 9.50.7523 |
|
Winamp (remove only) | |
|
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130) | 1.5.0530.0 |
|
Windows Imaging Component | 3.0.0.0 |
|
Windows Installer 3.1 (KB893803) | 3.1 |
|
Windows Internet Explorer 7 | 20061027.150806 |
|
Windows Media Encoder 9 Series | 9.00.2980 |
|
Windows Media Format 11 runtime | |
|
Windows Media Player 11 | |
|
Windows Media Player 11 | |
|
WinPoker 6 | |
|
XQDC X-Setup Pro 8.1.110 | 8.1.110 |
|
ZoneAlarm Pro | 7.0.302.000 |
|
Zune Desktop Theme | 1.0.5341.0 |
