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What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

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nontroppo:
Zaine: it just depends on the OS manufacturer :P

I actually do think hardware has advanced and provides significant advantage. The core2duo, considering the fact that the future is virtualisation and hardware abstraction (did you see the new Ubuntu JeOS?), has been a godsend (far more than just lumping two processors together). I am working in ways now that really were unthinkable a few years back, and my productivity boost is tangible.

nontroppo:
Hm, it appears SP1 will not do much for performance according to current beta versions (but perhaps they still have debug code and whatnot riding along):

http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/09/29/hands-on-windows-vista-service-pack-1-beta/
http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/3eef651f0a010408008b33e8065121c5/pg1.htm

nontroppo:
A follow-up post from the same guys that did the initial testing:

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/vista-sp1-performance-dud.html

Ralf Maximus:
A follow-up post from the same guys that did the initial testing:

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/vista-sp1-performance-dud.html
-nontroppo (November 19, 2007, 09:03 AM)
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The comments are... ah, a bit acidic.

lanux128:
yes, i think this is obvious.. every conceivable breakthroughs in processor technology are consumed immediately by Microsoft's software.. the modern day equivalent would be Vista as a way of getting back at dual-core processors..

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