The debate is over - XP speed beats Vista.

It seems that you didn't tried Fedora yet

 

To see 4GB you need to have 64bit windows xp. 32bit is limited at 3.5gb i believe.

 

And it seems they never tried any earlier Windows version, the older the faster and stable starting with Windows 98SE, the best of all them according to a large number of geeks if you googleit.

Previous to this last one, other Windows version could be considered now "experimental" and unestable.

 

Ditto. My laptop isn't optimized for Vista. I am going to use it until the CPU cycles fall off.

 

XP can never beat Vista. Vista is far better than XP...but you need a decent hardware configuration for best vista experience.

It is useless to compare XP and vista on low hardware configuration.

 

Yes I agree with Notorious, 98 was much faster! I did like 2000 to but now I'm stuck with vista and it does limit what I can do as compared with 98 & 2000 server

 

Trusted Writer, that is way cool, the configuration you've got in your sig... to cool! How many hrs you got into that? HaHaHaHa!

 

Thanks for comment on my sig ezcat

It took a little bit time setting my signature this was indeed, but even then it was faster than XP and Vista.

I was about to comment about those good jokes referring to those pair of turtles (compared with WIN98SE) with your observation came across

 

there's never been a debate - early tests by all major sites show xp is faster

 

You obviously did not read the original article because PC World magazine ran their lab tests on identical machines and XP was proven faster in the majority of the tests.

The article said XP was "faster" not "better".

/*tom*/

 

The debate is not over...Take a close look at the PC system the comparison was performed on as well as what applications were tested. Vista is a high powered OS and the CPU on the PC system used for the comparison should have been the QX9770 and not the E8400. Vista is the future OS. In order to take advantage of this high powered OS you must have a new high powered computer...This is the future! Also, the comparison mentioned nothing about functionality or flexability.

 

The next debate will be on Vista vs Vienna

 

Vista beats XP on my PC.
Simple as that.

 

Well, I've installed SP3 from microsoft, it's already avaliable for some people And it seems my machine start working 2 times slower ?!(( Never have Vista, so can't compare.

 

Install a SP when it's available for public, not for testing. And don't trust torrents, with they "integrated" patches and SPs

 

Okay, will also do with public release. But SP3 already avaliable to some public officially

 

Are you a Microsoft partner? Where did you get it from?

 

SP3 for WinXP is avaiable on a number of software sites.
MajorGeeks, Softpedia, etc.

 

Vista is pretty good on computers with decent processor and atleast 1 GB Ram . I am using it for few months and so far no problemo .

 

Or 2 GB to run as fast as possible