News Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain

[Admin]

Microsoft claims that Windows 11 is 2.3 times faster than Windows 10, but fails to mention that the comparison is based entirely on new hardware versus old.

Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain : Read more

 

[TerryLaze]

Microsoft claims that Windows 11 is 2.3 times faster than Windows 10, but fails to mention that the comparison is based entirely on new hardware versus old.

Actual claim from the site:
"In fact, Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3x faster than Windows 10 PCs."

windows 11 is 2.3X faster than... is a different claim from windows 11 PCs are 2.3X faster than...

Yes the wording and where they placed this piece of information is very deceptive, still, anybody that can read can understand what they said.

 

[coolitic]

Deceptive marketing that goes off of a small technicality to avoid being sued.

 

[Notton]

Microsoft just asking to be debunked by a tech review website.
and then to rub salt into their self inflicted wound, add a light weight linux distro or two.

 

[TerryLaze]

add a light weight linux distro or two.

Sure, as long as you compare it to windows safe mode, since that's pretty much the level of functionality you get out of a light weight distro without adding everything back in.

 

[Notton]

Sure, as long as you compare it to windows safe mode, since that's pretty much the level of functionality you get out of a light weight distro without adding everything back in.

I was thinking Mint!, which is definitely on par with the full version of Win7/8/10, but only requiring 8GB RAM to run.

 

[USAFRet]

I was thinking Mint!, which is definitely on par with the full version of Win7/8/10, but only requiring 8GB RAM to run.

Let's not have this fight yet again.....

 

[hotaru251]

and they didnt even pick decent processors that old..

this is why we need laws agasint spreading disinformation by making claism that are deceptive by nature hiding details.
Should be required ot put the caveats at start in large print.

 

[Rabohinf]

There's no way Microsoft would lie or misrepresent, right guys? Terry?

 

[TerryLaze]

There's no way Microsoft would lie or misrepresent, right guys? Terry?

Everybody does it, you included. I'm 100% sure your real life name is robohinf...

 

[derekullo]

My Xigmanas 12.2.0.4 is at least 1000 times better at serving files than Windows 11 Home.

If I'm allowed to move the goal posts 😛

 

[USAFRet]

My Xigmanas 12.2.0.4 is at least 1000 times better at serving files than Windows 11 Home.

If I'm allowed to move the goal posts 😛

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

 

[das_stig]

So more Microsoft lies, smoke and mirrors.
No excuse for testing the same hardware with a fresh install of the latest version of Windows 10/11 and associated drivers, or as I suspect, testing was done and W10 came out smacking W11 backside across all benchmarks and Microsoft don't have the guts too say so !

 

[derekullo]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Windows 11 Home has a limit of 20 concurrent inbound network connections
Xigmanas has no such limit.

 

[USAFRet]

Windows 11 Home has a limit of 20 concurrent inbound network connections
Xigmanas has no such limit.

Yes, that can be a significant benefit.

But "1000 times"?

And why are you comparing 'Home' features to NAS/Server features?

 

[yahrightthere]

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[Findecanor]

BTW. Hasn't Linux consistently beaten Windows 11 in benchmarks, on the same hardware?
Then by the same logic, Linux should be a better choice than Windows 11 to convert to, shouldn't it?
(Sorry, I just had to)

 

[palladin9479]

BTW. Hasn't Linux consistently beaten Windows 11 in benchmarks, on the same hardware?
Then by the same logic, Linux should be a better choice than Windows 11 to convert to, shouldn't it?
(Sorry, I just had to)

No.

Or rather "it depends". Linux is not an OS, so you really have to compare specific distros with specific workloads.

 

[heffeque]

My personal experience with Win11 is that it is definitely slower and less snappy than Win10; be it on older hardware and even on brand new hardware.

I'm not sure how they messed up the GUI on Win11 so much to have a sluggish right click, an even slower "Win + space bar" (instant on Win10, takes 1 second on Win11, which might not seem like much, but... it's just ridiculous how slow it is), and add to that that, things that used to take a couple clicks now take a ton of clicks.

I'll install Win11 on my Framework Desktop when it arrives because there might be things that will only work on Windows... but I'm going to dual boot it with Bazitte and will probably use that as my main OS.
Win11 is just a terrible disaster of an OS.

 

[TomGeek]

I upgraded from 10 to 11 last month and the ui is so slow. It's like molasses. And right clicking is broken. And clicking on a taskbar minimized item to restore a window doesn't work half the time - try restoring one of many chrome windows. Good luck. And some taskbar items require a single click and some a double click to open. The start button moves all over the place depending on how many apps you have open. Pinning stuff on the taskbar is no longer an option for many many things. Recent history per app on the taskbar is gone. It's a mess and my productivity is severely affected.

 

[George³]

Microsoft claims that Windows 11 is 2.3 times faster than Windows 10,

Let's strike this old and this beta version that is testing bugs onto consumers back and choose next version (12?)

 

[Findecanor]

The start button moves all over the place depending on how many apps you have open.

The taskbar can be configured to be left-aligned.

I wish there was an option to always unhide a window on the same screen as the task-bar that I'm clicking.
I've often had to undock a laptop from a multi-screen setup (to get all apps on the laptop's scren) and then move back to the multi-screen setup to have all apps still on the laptop's small screen.
And sometimes windows have been off-screen altogether.

 

[micheal_15]

I ran my OWN benchmarks using Microsoft's standards:

Windows 11 was over 20,000x SLOWER at launching than windows 3.1
Windows 11 took nearly 6250x the memory footprint of windows 3.1
A minimum spec Windows 11 PC cost 300x the cost of a minimum spec windows 3.1 PC

So by Microsoft's OWN rules, we should all go to windows 3.1

 

[TerryLaze]

I ran my OWN benchmarks using Microsoft's standards:

Windows 11 was over 20,000x SLOWER at launching than windows 3.1

A minimum spec Windows 11 PC cost 300x the cost of a minimum spec windows 3.1 PC


So by Microsoft's OWN rules, we should all go to windows 3.1

Lol, talking like somebody who even his parents weren't around yet at the time of windows 3.1. Other than needing more ram the rest is nonsense.
Most PC back then would still operate on floppy disks alone and hard drives were barely any faster than floppies, startup of windows 3.1 on a system of that time was very slow, it had to run dos first and before that it had to check the whole ram.
Windows 11 saves a running copy of the ram on your nvme boot drive and boot up is a couple of seconds max.
Also $2199 of 1992 money would be 5000 today....

Windows 3.1 Turns 30: Here's How It Made Windows Essential

Smooth fonts, multimedia, and more. Anyone up for a game of Minesweeper?

www.howtogeek.com

 

[P.Amini]

Also $2199 of 1992 money would be 5000 today....

Windows 3.1 Turns 30: Here's How It Made Windows Essential

Smooth fonts, multimedia, and more. Anyone up for a game of Minesweeper?

www.howtogeek.com

and ... I save $199 that would be (near) $500 today🤑