XP SP3

Hans Dietrich

According to recent blog postings, Windows XP SP3 is 10% faster than SP2, and is also twice as fast as Vista. More details...

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code frog 0

We're just talking about the download right?:laugh:

Marc Clifton

Hans Dietrich wrote:

According to recent blog postings, Windows XP SP3 is 10% faster than SP2, and is also twice as fast as Vista.

You know, doesn't the EULA for these OS's say that doing any performance benchmarks will result in your instantanious death by slow Vistacution? For example, it seems like half the EULA on VS2008 is about what you can and cannot performance benchmark, and on what is allowed, how you have to go about publishing your results. Man, Microsoft must be worried. :) For Microsoft, the wow and the ow have started all over again, with siblings Windows Vista and Windows XP fighting in the back seat of the car causing all of the trouble. So who's driving? A penguin? Gotta love these metaphors! Marc

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Antony M Kancidrowski

Interesting read. You might say that by SP3 they have gotten XP right. ;)

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Lost User

And 2K is twice as fast as XP.

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You are not the only one out there who seems to have noted the speed of 2K, on old or modern hardware. What types of test are you running to arrive at 'twice' though?

Judah Gabriel Himango

And Windows NT is twice as fast as 2k. Windows 95 is twice is fast as Windows 98. Windows 3.1 is twice as fast as Windows 95. (or in other words, 3.1 is 16x as fast as Vista!) Fortunately, hardware improvements more or less cancel this difference. We've traded speed for more features. Over time, all software spoils[^]. More features, more sophistication, more complexity, bigger downloads, bigger memory footprints, ad infinitum.

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code frog 0

Nothing spoils the speed of a good ol console app. It gets me to vomit faster than anything else I've ever seen that wasn't affiliated with Lotus.

Muhadeeb99

is this relevent? http://dailyapps.net/2007/11/hack-attack-get-windows-xp-sp3-through-windows-update/[^]

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XP, 98, linux, 2000k Should be BANNED, LOCKED OUT and REMOVED. THEY do not protect copyright and provide Digital rights at kernal level. COPYRIGHT HOLDERS HAVE MOR RIGHTS THAN OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT FACILITATE PIRACY.

Dan Neely

hello kyle.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

shouldn't you be taking your pills about now?

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code frog 0

Wow! Some pirate has tampered with your cheerios. You better get them! You own them! Get a license fee! Get royalties. Run em' up the pole man!!!:rolleyes: If you quote any of my text in your reply you are doing so without my permission and I will have my RIAA dogs rock your world! So don't even think about it!

code frog 0

We should give him his own permanent username. Chris should agree not to ban him and he should get a special icon. I kind of like having him around. He keeps the place from getting dull.

Dan Neely

code-frog wrote:

Chris should agree not to ban him and he should get a special icon.

A head with the top sliced off to show an empty cranial cavity?

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Joe Woodbury

When XP came out, I did comparisons on identical Compaq systems and found very little difference in performance. Adding memory and a better hard drive did wonders for both. Neither was as fast as Win98, however, though the latter was more unstable.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

a wild mule or a jackass?

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QuiJohn

Hans Dietrich wrote:

According to recent blog postings, Windows XP SP3 is 10% faster than SP2, and is also twice as fast as Vista.

So Vista was already 0.55 the speed of SP2? Color me not surprised.

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Pete OHanlon

Hans Dietrich wrote:

Windows XP SP3 is 10% faster than SP2, and is also twice as fast as Vista

That's nothing. So's a sloth, that's not been feeling well, and died then gone stiff, before being pickled and used as a doorstop.

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