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Hi Myst,
There was a lab that released a detailed speed comparison between XP and Vista, and XP won.
I have 2 machines on my desk, both have identical hardware (Core 2 Duo's, 4GB Ram, etc). The XP machine is much faster.
Vista takes forever to boot up, and Photoshop is very slugish on Vista, but flies and never chokes up on XP.
The only good thing about Vista is that it runs DirectX 10 which makes things like dust, smoke, and other details in games look even better. However you have to look very hard to see the difference, and in fast 1st Person Shooters, you really want higher frame rates, and not necessarily more detail.
Vista will be the future anyway, but its current version, even with the latest patches, is kind of sucky.
FuckingFuck, do this: Buy any laptop you like, and then buy the OEM Version of XP (it's cheaper by at least 50%). FORMAT the hard disk on your new machine and install XP. Why? Because most brand name computer makes load-down their machines with useless software that your machine slows to a crawl. So many programs load up and stay in memory that Windows has no RAM left to do anything so it has to use the hard disk to swap shit out to virtual memory every time you hit a key.
Cheers!
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