After Windows 7 beta 1 leaked, many bloggers caught hold of it very soon and started testing/using Windows 7. We saw Ed Bott from ZDnet reporting about the changes in the Windows 7 beta 1 license agreement. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet has benchmarked Windows 7 with its predecessors Windows Vista and Windows XP. The Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 was considered for testing. Since its 32bit, it was tested against 32bit versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.There were 23 factors tested and some of the factors that interested me were:
- Install OS
- Move 100MB files
- Move 2.5GB files
- Network transfer 100MB files
- Network transfer 2.5GB files
The systems considered for benchmarking were:
- An AMD Phenom 9700 2.4GHz system fitted with an ATI Radeon 3850 and 4GB of RAM
- An Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz fitted with an NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and 1GB of RAM
The overall results were very promising for Windows 7. It outperformed its predecessors Vista and XP in almost every factor tested and ranked #1. Windows Vista ranked #2 with the AMD and #3 with the Intel. Windows XP ranked #3 with the AMD and #2 with the Intel. But the scores weren't big enough to compare between Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Below is the score for some of the factors listed above:
And the overall results:
Sure these tests show a huge improvement on Windows 7 even at this early stage when compared to Windows Vista(during its beta stages).
*Images Courtesy: ZDNet
You one of very few people that saw that, about 99% say 7000 is faster including me.
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He's actually saying 7000 is faster >_>. Read well.
I've read his comment 5 times. Each time it reads to me he's saying 7000 is 'slightly' slower.
I've read his comment 5 times. Each time it reads to me he's saying 7000 is 'slightly' slower.
Did you actually read who he is quoting? He's quoting creamhackered who says 7000 is greatly improved from 6956. That's why I said 'read well'.
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Maybe because there are native drivers for your sound card at this point in time? Have you tried Vista drivers?
On build 7000 when I did Windows Updates it detected a Creative driver, downloaded and installed it.
Yeah I've tried that. Why would something which worked perfectly in build 6801 change in 7000?
Yeah I've downloaded the Vista drivers, extracted them and installed it and sound card works...for like 5 mins before it creatively creates a whole bunch of noise and then bam...freezes. have to restart the computer to use sound again.
Yes it is and if it runs good on that, imagine how much better it would be on a Core 2 Duo or i7.
Hell I have an Athlon 64 3200+ Venice for socket 754 that runs 7 like a dream and this is just a VM w/ 1GB provided to it.
Why, so Microsoft won't be embarrassed?
Benchmarking a beta, fresh out of alpha though isn't fair to the beta product. I mean, we don't want to have Windows 7 bashing the others so badly, so early that people actually have hope.
When someone downloads a leaked version of.. let's say, WMP 10, and discusses it on the forum, that person is banned from neowin. But... "it's someone else who has downloaded a leaked version of something not yet officially released, not neowin".
Dont like the double standards!
Dont like the double standards!
What are you talking about? People are allowed to talk about pre-release software. We don't know where you got it.. for all we know you might be a beta tester. The only time we'll take action is if you explain how you got it illegally.
Agreed. If I discuss Linux, I don't want anyone to force me to share my source code.
Although, on a serious side, EULA violations are a "civil" law matter; it is not a matter of "criminal" law. And that makes a big difference in legal liability.
Although, on a serious side, EULA violations are a "civil" law matter; it is not a matter of "criminal" law. And that makes a big difference in legal liability.
Plus, their "no benchmarking" rule is stupid and I don't really give a damn about it anyway
I you read the ZDnet article again, you can see this note:
Important note: Before I go any further I feel I need to make a point, and make it clear. The build I’m testing of Windows 7 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) is a beta build, and as a rule beta builds are usually more geared towards stability than performance. That said, the performance of this build should give us a clue as to how the OS is coming along.
Although, on a serious side, EULA violations are a "civil" law matter; it is not a matter of "criminal" law. And that makes a big difference in legal liability.
Plus, their "no benchmarking" rule is stupid and I don't really give a damn about it anyway
Then why the heck should anyone follow Apple's EULA about not installing OS X on anything but Apple hardware?
Neowin allows discussion of that.
Or were you not meaning to support the argument with your post?
Or are you just on about the different builds of Windows 7 (6953 and 7000)?
i get that aswell, on windows 7 my internet connection keeps cutting off, and msn always sings out. so went back to vista for now, and everythin seems fine.
Isn't that suppose to be predecessors and not successors ?
Actually I think that is our bad.
oh in that case bad journalism skills..
Mistakes are made, from time to time.
I didnt REALLY start getting into windows as an enthusiast until right before vista came out, but i heard during testing of vista/longhorn, that it was much faster until near the end.
I am pretty sure on the WIN7 blog they had an article about how this time around there are specific performance tests that every build has to go through to ensure that they are not "bloating" it up.
Hahaha, no. It was basically unusable during the betas...
Your 'english' and language skills would tell you to capitalize Oh, add a comma after Oh and case, and insert "it is" before bad.
Sincerely,
English nazi correcting a typo nazi
Sincerely,
English nazi correcting a typo nazi
Irony much? zomg I just used a rhetoric...oh no he didn't?
Sincerely,
English nazi correcting a typo nazi
don't be a spanker with "ize" endings.
The point is that Vista generally got it's ass kicked by XP, but Win7 beats them both hands down. Windows Vista wouldn't make such epic wins against Win98. I would also say that WinXP vs Win7 is more equivalent to WinVista vs Win2K, not 98.
5 minutes? On what planet? Vista install is MUCH faster then XP.
Isn't that essentially what I said? Or did you just mean that Vista's installation is even quicker than what I mentioned?
Just need some decent windows 7 drivers and i would be ready to make it my main OS, and I'm a staunch defender of Windows XP.
Just need some decent windows 7 drivers and i would be ready to make it my main OS, and I'm a staunch defender of Windows XP.
There is no beta 1, just beta. Next up is RC.
Seems pretty good - good job so far Microsoft Dev Teams
[off] people flaming about mistakes on news is a REAL SHAME!!! are you guys human?? get a life [/off]
Last edited by LTD on 04 Jan 2009 - 16:19
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