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Originally Posted by bookworm_020
It would drag the performance down on my current system and give no real advantages.
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Thats your opinion, but one which disregards all of the new features and changes in Vista. Its an opinion that commonly comes from people who dont understand operating systems in detail - its like the bloke who thought that Vista only gave him the aero interface cos thats all he could see was different.
Performance is comparable and actually better in many scenarios. Take for example the new service startup mode where delayed startup occurs that allows the user to more quickly boot and be able to do things while services are still loading. This makes it much better than XP under the same scenario.
Another example is superfetch and how this has eliminated the classic "back from lunch" slowdown.
Some third party devices did make Vista slower because the drivers for Vista were young and did not have the optimisations that were present in XP SP2 version drivers. However since then when people have re-benchmarked on newer Vista drivers things like gpu performance in directx titles has been improved.
With the new file copy changes the disk performance for copying large files is improved over XP - have a look at benchmarks around the net. And with other patches the new kernel is based off windows server 2008 and has much smart process and memory management than XP.