7 beats XP in new series of benchmarks

[notherdude]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3187

It's still early but the results are promising.

 

[sudec]

Well, looks good, but since it is still not released it can still change a lot in my opinion.

 

[MarkG]

I like the 'boot time' benchmark. Boot time has never been a problem on XP; what I hate is the way that it takes two minutes after logging in before it's actually usable.... time from pressing the power button to being able to actually use my web browser or word processor would be a far more useful benchmark.

Linux, for example, boots in about the same time as XP, but only takes about ten seconds to be usable after logging in.