Microsoft Corporation encourages all users to stop using outdated Windows XP in favor of the more modern versions of the operating system.
However, many PC owners do not hurry to use this advice. Despite the fact that official support for XP will be discontinued in April 2014, many people still consider it to be the fastest, secure and stable operating system from Microsoft.
With this conventional wisdom bet Troy Hunt, software architect and winner of the title of Microsoft MVP. Experts have found that Windows XP, running on the 7-year old laptop is noticeably inferior to the performance of fresh Windows 8.
“According to an unwritten law, the system requirements are growing software from version to version. However, in the case of Windows 8, this pattern has been broken. I found that “eight” is faster than Windows XP, even on older hardware platform, “- written by experts in their own blog.
In the actual test involved a laptop Lenovo T60 2006 release, complete with an Intel Core Duo processor with a clock frequency of 1.83 GHz and a gigabyte of RAM. The test results were very eloquent. The installation of Windows 8 only took 24 minutes 55 seconds, while Windows XP took 26 minutes and 12 seconds to copy all the necessary files. Time Windows 8 took 6 seconds and XP ready computer to work for long 17 seconds.
With the opening of Word documents and PDF Windows 8 mastered in 3.4 seconds, and XP spent to perform these operations 4.3 and 2.8 seconds respectively. Another challenge was indicative download heavy files Photoshop. “Eight” fitted within just 16.5 seconds, 2.5 times ahead of her rival, whose result was 41.5 seconds. Finally in the PassMark test new operating system Windows 8 scored 407.5 points, and Windows XP showed a more modest result – 356.5 points.
Comparative testing of two OS captured on video. It shows what software was used: Office 2013 on Windows 8 vs. Office 2003 on Windows XP, Adobe Reader, and Photoshop CS3. The download speed was measured after completion of the work of a staff of both OS and then turn off the computer.
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i guess i’ll upgrade my old laptop from xp to 8,..
thx bro
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dualcore CPU @1.20Gh
memory : 2Gb RAM
Vga : 128 Mb
That’s very true. I’ve upgrade my old laptop Dell Inspiron 1420 to windows 8 pro. The machine feels lighter and more responsive, compared to Xp or vista. There shouldn’t be any argument about the start screen because once you used to it you will find it quite handy.
My laptop spec:
duo core CPU 1.50GHz
memory : 2Gb RAM DDR2
Hard Disk : 150Gb
This just in ! Experts who get paid by Microsoft discovered that the operating system you’ll have to buy is better than the one you already bought. As a general rule, if lies pay better than truth expect lies.
It seems that people are always saying the newer OS runs faster. I decided to do some quick benchmarks on my brother’s rig to see if that is the case.
Test rig:
e3400 @ 3.7 GHz
4 gigs ram
8800 gts 320 mb
Test game: Blacklight Retribution “Training room” (CPU bottlenecked in this scenario)
Did a clean install for each OS and used 304.79 BETA drivers. Used Fraps benchmark tool and did the benchmark 3 times for each OS.
Results:
Windows XP SP3 32-bit: 193 FPS average
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit: 145 FPS average
Windows 8 RTM 32-bit: 139 FPS average
Max/min fps were all about 30-40 FPS above/below average FPS.
Conclusion: I’m not sure what the results are for GPU bottlenecks, but if you are CPU bottlenecked and your PC is older, then Windows XP is the way to go.
Edited by tahayassen – 8/10/12 at 3:15pm
The boot time is far from the real deal. The test only shows the time to the welcome screen. XP is much much faster when it comes up to start time for “ready to go” machine! I don’t think that Microsoft will make anything better then XP ever again. The new OS’s that came up are just getting slower and slower just to make it more graphically interesting but not and time effective. What the users actually want anyway.
Windows 8 looks better and microsoft marketing policy is remarkable but after testing Windows XP I personally decided to go with Windows XP for next one year. Most computer user wants to stay with market’s newest software. we will decided after watching at least one year performance of Windows 8.
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it is point to upgrade
Intel 1.8GHz
RAM 2GB
HDD 40gb
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thats so fucking not right about boot.
I got SSD and my Windows XP boots in 3 seconds!
YOURE WRONG BRO.
Haha, I got win 8 on an ssd and it boots in 2
You’re wrong bro!
i got nothing, nothing :((
bro!! :((
avoid windows 8 if you can.Which you cant as Microsoft seems to think people need newer and complex new systems.xp and windows 98 were and still are the best programs for user friendly and simple to use operating systems.If you like a completely different system and like confusion get windows 8. I wont be again.
Lies, lies just lies, XP requires much less RAM