Windows Vista 2X slower than Windows XP

New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

It’s not surprising and I’m glad I did not take Dell’s offer to upgrade my Windows XP on my patzer notebook to Vista.

Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP’s 35 seconds.

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I’m happy with Windows XP Media edition on this one year old Dell 640m. Looking forward to install SP3.

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