Een zeer betrouwbaar blad maakte deze vergelijking:
To find out, we decided to test each operating system's performance on an average PC. The system is nothing particularly special by today's standards, consisting of an Intel dual-core E5200 CPU, 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD4550 graphics card. We installed XP, Vista and Windows 7 in that order (all 32-bit versions) on the machine's 500GB hard drive and ran a number of real-world benchmarks to find out which OS was best.
The boot time test provided no surprises – Vista took the longest time to get started, XP came in second place and Windows 7 was the fastest.
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SWITCHED ON: Tired of lengthy boot times? We bear good news. Even the beta of Windows 7 can beat Vista's sluggish start
At first it seemed like our file transfer benchmarks would deliver the same results. Vista produced poor copy speeds in our small file tests, XP again placed second and Windows 7 came out on top. But when we tried transferring larger 1GB files, Vista surprisingly just managed to win out over XP. Both were beaten by the speedy Windows 7, though.
This proved true for our application tests as well. Open a small Excel spreadsheet or PDF file, say, and XP beats Vista, but heavy-duty spreadsheets and PDF files opened faster under Vista than XP. Once again, however, both were trounced by the newcomer.
You might have spotted the theme here. Windows 7 delivered excellent results, beating or coming close to the performance of the lightweight XP in just about every category. It's quite remarkable given that this is an operating system still in beta. When all the drivers are fully finished, we should see even better performance.
If we'd run the benchmarks on a less powerful PC, perhaps one with only 1GB of RAM, then it's possible that Windows XP would have fared better than it did here. But for even a fairly basic modern PC, Windows 7 delivers the best performance around.
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Als je pc nog goed draait op XP en je hebt geen nieuwe software nodig en geen nieuwe drivers, laat het dan zoals het is.
Stap in ieder geval niet over op Vista!
Als je wilt of moet moderniseren, gebruik dan Win 7.
En bedenk elke overstap vraagt gewenning.
Win 7 vind ik persoonlijk veel beter dan Vista qua lay-out, maar het verschil tussen XP en Win 7 is in dit opzicht groter.
Het went echter snel.
Op een nieuwe pc draai je uiteraard Win 7. Het heeft geen enkel nut om oude OS-en te installeren op nieuwe systemen.
Met name met de drivers, dat zijn kleine programma's waarmee jouw computer praat met randapparatuur als beeldscherm, geluidskaart en scanner/printer, gaan voor problemen zorgen.
