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Carol Haynes:
Well nearly - see the 4 page article on why sticking with XP and a few addons is possibly best ...

http://www.desktoppipeline.com/190302443

f0dder:
Pretty boring and irrelevant article IMHO... also, what the heck do they mean by this?
However, users with dual-core PCs may notice a performance boost with Vista when they're multitasking, because Vista can take advantage of dual cores to run separate processes, something that XP can't do. So if you have a dual-core PC and you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, you will lose the performance improvement that Vista can bring.

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Even NT4 supports multi-CPU systems. And multitasking isn't done per-process anyway, it's done per-thread.

Microsoft also claims that multimedia will run better in Vista than XP because Vista can give streaming audio and video priority over other processes so that they won't be interrupted.

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That sounds a bit silly as well - you can already manually (or with whatever tool) raise your media player process priority.

Josh:
Perhaps for the media portion they mean they can use QoS to allocate more bandwidth to streaming media. Increasing process priority on the player wont do this for you.

f0dder:
Perhaps for the media portion they mean they can use QoS to allocate more bandwidth to streaming media. Increasing process priority on the player wont do this for you.
-Josh (July 19, 2006, 06:00 AM)
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True enough, and there could be some advanced in kernel-streaming drivers as well (which has nothing to do with internet streaming btw), etc. There's nothing stopping QoS on XP though, and iirc win2k supports it as well - just a matter of making the media player utilize it. Oh, and the rest of your networking equipment.

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