RC1 Benchmarks

[r_manic]

From Gizmodo:

The money quote:

Windows 7 RC1 consistently beat Vista in raw benchmarks by a small margin, and lagged slightly behind Vista in some very real world measures. What's really interesting is that in regular usage, Windows 7 still feels faster and more responsive than Vista, even though the objective numbers say otherwise. It's more than just a simple "hey it's not Vista" placebo effect: It points to a slicker, refined user experience that makes you feel like the OS responds more hastily or smoothly to your whims. And that's what really matters, more than the numbers.

Very very true. Is MS finally learning from Apple's smooth presentation?

 

[mi1ez]

Well now they've removed the windows draw bottleneck everything should be better!

 

[Zoron]

Apple is as smooth and slick as your local used car salesman. People get locked into closed hardware / OS and pay more for it... yet somehow seem happy about it. Apple must have some really good Kool-Aid.

 

[silversurfernhs]

sounds just like the performance change im experiencing; im excited to by the full version when its ready