Re: In Case Anyone's Considering Vista...

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Paul Lagasse wrote:
> For instance, notebooks running Vista SP1 took more than 80 seconds to
> complete a series of Office tasks in the OfficeBench test suite, while
> notebooks running Windows XP SP2 completed the tasks in just over 40
> seconds.
BUT--much virtue in a but--all benchmarking is done with Office. And it
is, I think, well known that the Office developers and the opsys
developers at Redmond do not always communicate as one would expect.
(Wasn't there an XP patch that broke Office majorly a while back?) I
don't use M$ Office; Open Office is pretty much of a memory hog itself,
but I only use it when I have to. (I'm hoping IBM's attempts to let
Lotus Symphony go open source--it's in beta, last I heard--will pan out.
1-2-3 is my first, second, and third choice for a spreadsheet. but all
my copies of Millennium Suite are so old, I doubt they'll run under Vista.)
Anyway, abstract benchmarking is just that, abstract. How does it do
what you need to do? is the question. And so far (knock wood), not too bad.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscameg@xxxxxxxx