Showing posts with label Vista XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vista XP. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2007

Test Confirms: Vista is a Slug Compared to XP

Windows XP Service Pack 3, the update scheduled to release next year, runs Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite 10 percent faster than XP SP2, Devil Mountain Software, a performance testing software company says. That's not the biggest news.

According to Devil Mountain, Windows XP SP3 is also considerably faster than Vista SP1. "None of this bodes well for Vista, which is now more than two times slower than the most current builds of its older sibling," company executives say.

"Tokens" are the New "FLOPS," "MIPS" or "Gbps"

Modern computing has some virtually-universal reference metrics. For Gemini 1.5 and other large language models, tokens are a basic measure...