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Comment Re:Hookay... damage control? Paid by MS? (Score 1) 864

by shaman42 on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @06:03AM (#26526669) Attached to: Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's

Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 + 3 years newer hardware + drivers.

I am running Win 7 beta on my vista "ready" laptop. Before Win 7 I have used xp,ubuntu and os x in it and Win 7 is the fastest OS of them all. So no new hardware is really needed. I am really waiting for cheap tablets to arrive because most of the new GUI-features seems to be aimed for them.

Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's 515

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 15, 2009 @05:52PM from the aggregated-circumstances dept.

narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"

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