Windows Vista has been underwhelming folks since in left the dock. This OS smells like a load of dead fish. OK, a touch much. I had decided to give it a fair shake. I have a computer running Vista in my lab and I have been forcing myself using it off and one now for months. I just can’t take it anymore. The security approach is nutty. Death by a thousand pop ups. And, to be honest I find Linux and Mac OS X far more user friendly.
That being said, the news isn’t any more positive for the SP1.
From PC World New Zealand:
Devil Mountain ran its DMS Clarity Studio framework on a laptop Barth described as a “barn burner” — dual-core processor, dedicated graphics, and either 1GB or 2GB of memory — to compare performance of the SP1 release candidate that Microsoft released last week with the RTM version that hit general distribution last January. The Vista RTM was not updated with any of the bug fixes, patches or performance packs that Microsoft has pushed through Windows Update since the operating system’s debut.
“One gigabyte, 2GB [of memory], it didn’t make a difference,” said Barth. “SP1 was never more than 1% or 2% faster.”
The difference between Vista RTM and SP1 on Devil Mountain’s Microsoft Office-based test script was “statistically insignificant,” Barth said, while a multitasking test panel produced results for SP1 less than 1% faster than RTM.
“Our goal wasn’t to bash Vista,” said Barth. “We’ve been doing this for a while, we know how to do it, and we tried to be as clinical as possible. But SP1 is not going to be a panacea for any performance problems users have with Vista. If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista, you’re not going to be any happier with SP1.”
May not have been the goal. But, it was always a possible outcome. Bad luck that.
[tags]Windows Vista SP1, Vista SP1[/tags]
