Microsoft promised us major performance improvements with Windows 8
and while the new OS may still be in its infancy, it appears to be living up to
these claims. Over at Lifehacker they decided to put Microsoft’s claims to the
test and ran a few speed tests to compare the Windows8 developer preview with
Windows 7. However they didn’t conduct those usual tests which are just a bunch of
synthetic benchmarks which simply churn out numbers and don’t really make sense
to the average user. Instead they performed an array of everyday tests where you
could visually see the difference for yourself. All the tests were performed on
a clean installation of each OS with the same programs installed.
The system used to test them on was a 3.8GHz Intel Core
i7 with 6GB of RAM, a 2TB Harddrive and an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT.
So the results? Well hands down Windows 8 won overall, and beat Windows
7 in nearly every single test that was carried out. However there was one test
where it absolutely blew Windows 7 away, and that was the boot time. When
Windows 7 was released it did boot surprisingly quick, but Microsoft have put a
lot more work into Windows 8′s boot time, as a result it thrashed Windows 7 in
this test, booting in just 10 seconds compared to Windows 7′s 35 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6It3HNXxEZE&feature=player_embedded
As I’m sure you can probably see some of the differences were very very
slight and you probably wouldn’t notice. But bear in mind all these tests were
run on a pretty powerful machine so you would probably see more improvement on
an older lower spec machine.
Lifehacker also noted that sometimes Windows 8 didn’t boot in this magical 10
seconds, sometimes it would take nearly as long as Windows 7. I think we can
just put that down to the fact that it’s still only a developer preview and
we’ve still nearly got a year to go until Microsoft release Windows 8 to the
public, and chances are these little quirks will be gone by then.
Source:
Lifehacker
and while the new OS may still be in its infancy, it appears to be living up to
these claims. Over at Lifehacker they decided to put Microsoft’s claims to the
test and ran a few speed tests to compare the Windows8 developer preview with
Windows 7. However they didn’t conduct those usual tests which are just a bunch of
synthetic benchmarks which simply churn out numbers and don’t really make sense
to the average user. Instead they performed an array of everyday tests where you
could visually see the difference for yourself. All the tests were performed on
a clean installation of each OS with the same programs installed.
The system used to test them on was a 3.8GHz Intel Core
i7 with 6GB of RAM, a 2TB Harddrive and an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT.
So the results? Well hands down Windows 8 won overall, and beat Windows
7 in nearly every single test that was carried out. However there was one test
where it absolutely blew Windows 7 away, and that was the boot time. When
Windows 7 was released it did boot surprisingly quick, but Microsoft have put a
lot more work into Windows 8′s boot time, as a result it thrashed Windows 7 in
this test, booting in just 10 seconds compared to Windows 7′s 35 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6It3HNXxEZE&feature=player_embedded
As I’m sure you can probably see some of the differences were very very
slight and you probably wouldn’t notice. But bear in mind all these tests were
run on a pretty powerful machine so you would probably see more improvement on
an older lower spec machine.
Lifehacker also noted that sometimes Windows 8 didn’t boot in this magical 10
seconds, sometimes it would take nearly as long as Windows 7. I think we can
just put that down to the fact that it’s still only a developer preview and
we’ve still nearly got a year to go until Microsoft release Windows 8 to the
public, and chances are these little quirks will be gone by then.
Source:
Lifehacker
