Windows Vista SP1 Test Results...Is It Worth It? - 'Showed A Drop in Performance'

Tabletpcreview:

"Today Microsoft released the long awaited Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista. We have seen some positive performance gains with the prior release clients offered to the public, and wanted to test what changes, if any, the final release has. For this test we picked a review notebook that we have in the office right now (Averatec AV2500), and benchmarked it before and after the SP1 Standalone update."

[TriggerHappy]

Not looking good...

[godofthunder10]

i'm posting this article about jadenkorri.i never would be doing this if he wouldn't be posting our privatly sent messages all over ng4 and he's only trying to make his self look good and he's the one that started it all.the first time i heard from him was when i wrote an article about the 360 and ps3 saying that they were both good systems.he turned around and posted an article saying that i was stupid and i must be from the U.S because i can't spell.well now he's posting only what he want to post to make his self look good but he's not posting the bad stuff he said so here's one that he sent me saying how proud he was of his country because they burnrd down the white house years.i'll admit that i cut his country down but that's after he started with the U.S first.so here's his email to me bragging about how his country burned down the white house years ago.

1 day 10 hours ago | By: jadenkorri | Block

Re:
so did u block me or not...like it matters...u feel sorry for me...well same goes for you...sounds like your purposely following and reading my posts.....someone has a crush...btw I'm not into that sort of thing FYI....I give a point up for actually not swearing as much as the last one....You are however just degrading yourself by sending these msgs, and i have no problem posting them myself... lastly....I'm proud of my country, we are the only country in the world that has burned down the white house...that should give you an idea were I'm from and no i would not want to be an American, but i have nothing really against Americans with the exception of you...

[decapitator]

Knew something would go wrong. *Hugs XP*

[mighty_douche]

Graphics performance isnt really a fair test, obviously it still shouldnt go down, but Vistas pants for gaming anyhoo. Any self respecting PC gaming is running XP.

Personally i see about 20% better gaming on XP.

[xplosneer]

I see no FPS Difference between my XP and Vista visually speaking, so I take Vista. However, I am running a desktop. Didn't I see before the exact opposite results? You guys enjoy XP, and I'll enjoy Vista.

[Shaka2K6]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooo!

[SpenserTracy]

Im certified in Vista and I know Vista is much better than XP. The firewall is more secure, UAC is more secure, Better security overall, Better GUI. It's clear Vista is still an infant, but so was XP some years ago.
I work with these OS's every day. Take it from me, XP is not better than Vista, only more mature. You will see Vista is the future and I do not want to go back.

[solidt12]

I hope you are right. We will see. I have new computer with Vista and a Mac with OS X and for what i do the older G4 with Mac OS X is better and runs better. I can't get Pro Tools to run smooth on my Vist Machine yet.

[SpenserTracy]

I also got a Mac with Leopard, all I can say is that all new versions of OS X has ment trouble for some programs. Im not saying it's worse than Vista. But if you have to compare Vista is not that bad at all. I hope you get your Pro Tools to run on Vista. There should be a patch or update on their website. However I dont know how old your version is and if it's to old maby you should buy an upgrade if you want to run Vista. Tell me why Pro Tools is not working, what is the exact problem?.

[Goodfella78]

/ITS MICROSH-TE REMEMBER[lol]yes its funny but true,yet another example of msofts present corporate failure.peace out.....

[Phil Harrison Mk4]

Im SHOCKED!!! ;-D

[xc7x]

that's sad but expected from a Windows product

[xplosneer]

Games run faster initially, however, they take more time switching tabs back to the game. Startup was a slight bit faster. It loaded IE8 a bit faster as well(noticable). However, it put a UAC on launching Civilization 4(not my other games for some reason). It's a mixed bag. My update on a Quad Core Dell with 3GB's Vista Permium took about 30 minutes to install.

Verdict:Worth it even for small performance boost.

Note:It seems to want to configure iTunes again after the install, but this was brief and my library is still there. Still has the darn black screen problem though(when you start it the menu is black on my computer)

[xplosneer]

Now I can't hibernate without pressing the button twice. The first time it seems to start to hibernate but pops back up again....

[akaFullMetal]

i just tried downloading the service pack but it just made my computer screw up and not load up, so ill wait a bit i guess before i download this again

[liquidsnake]

I wonder what that performance drop was? RROD Windows Edition?

[GETPWNT]

Vista rules. I'm just glad you pathetic n00bs will never find-out yourselves. Awwwww, you droids have sh1t computers. Go cry somewhere. ;)

[liquidsnake]

At least they can be upgraded. You're stuck with your wanabee console 3fixme.

[GETPWNT]

But it has games.

[pshizle]

is great

if it is a bit slower when booting up im still fine with it...expect sp1 to get rid of all the bugs =)