PC World Tests Final Version of Vista SP1

PC World Tests Final Version of Vista SP1 210

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:18PM from the could-be-worse dept.

Mac writes "PC World ran the final version of Windows Vista SP1 through a first set of tests last night. Here's the bottom line: 'File copying, one of the main performance-related complaints from Vista users, was significantly faster. But other tests showed little improvement and, in two tests, our experience was actually a little better without the service pack installed than with it.'"

PC World Tests Final Version of Vista SP1

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Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

by digitaldc ( 879047 ) * writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:21PM (#22339284)

After installing Vista SP1, it has been determined that the Vista SP2 will be a Vista uninstaller with a full version of XP Professional.

The real upgrade to Windows 7 (Score:1, Funny)

by davidwr ( 791652 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:27PM (#22339406) Homepage Journal

Microsoft Windows 7 [tinyurl.com]

GNAA [tinyurl.com] *just kidding*

You techies take the fall... (Score:5, Funny)

by Statecraftsman ( 718862 ) * writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:34PM (#22339500)

I for one am waiting until SP1SP1 comes out. I'm no early adopter.

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

by Zymergy ( 803632 ) * writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:38PM (#22339592)

Great!
Now thousands of snarky PC techs everywhere will be wearing T-shirts saying: " *I AM* Vista SP2! "

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

by rubycodez ( 864176 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:41PM (#22339630)

I found XP to be a bit too bloated and insecure for my tastes, can I get a double downgrade to 2000 pro?

THANK GOD (Score:2, Funny)

by stupidflanders ( 1230894 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:41PM (#22339636)

As someone who uses Vista at work, I for one welcome our slightly faster copy-and-paste overlords.

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:3, Funny)

by barzok ( 26681 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:45PM (#22339724)

That's what they said SP1 would be!

O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)

by Bobb Sledd ( 307434 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:46PM (#22339746) Homepage

Hm. That's funny... my personal tests conclude that my performance is better without Vista than with it.

Running Vista is a lot like trying to run a foot race in a swimming pool while wearing balls-and-chains on your feet. And then when you get to the end, a big fat lady grabs you out of the water and sits on your chest.

See, if you had just a little bit more beefy hardware, you'd barely even feel the chains.

Oh shoot it wasn't a car analogy.

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

by ShieldW0lf ( 601553 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @04:49PM (#22339778) Journal

File copying, one of the main performance-related complaints from Vista users, was significantly faster.

Good News: The integrated spyware/trojan horse functionality has seen significant performance enhancements. The overhead imposed on the various systems that this functionality interacts with has been significantly reduced.

But other tests showed little improvement and in two tests, our experience was actually a little better without the service pack installed than with it.

Bad News: The spyware/trojan horse functionality has been even more deeply integrated into the operating system. There are more systems than ever whose performance has been negatively affected by these assaults on the user.

At least there's some good news...

I don't want to start a holy war here but... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @05:04PM (#22340008)

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista machine (a Quad core Xeon w/8 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium 4 running XP SP2, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Internet Explorer 7 will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various "Vista ready" machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista machine that has run faster than its XP counterpart, despite Vista's re-written core code. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3.2ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim Vista is a superior OS.

Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over older faster, more stable XP.

Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)

by toleraen ( 831634 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @05:46PM (#22340796)

Why bother with computers when you can just go outside?

Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)

by Chris Burke ( 6130 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @05:48PM (#22340822) Homepage

And then when you get to the end, a big fat lady grabs you out of the water and sits on your chest.

Oh, whew! That's a relief. I seriously thought that sentence was going to end with "face".

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

by nschubach ( 922175 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @06:30PM (#22341466) Journal

Ah man, do I have to? The smart ass comments are more entertaining...

Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)

by nschubach ( 922175 ) writes: on Thursday February 07, 2008 @06:40PM (#22341620) Journal

The outside has all those bugs, not to mention all that glare from the sun detracting from your enjoyment. It's just easier to stay inside and venture outside in a virtual world where you can kill the bugs with huge fireballs and fancy weapons. If I go out in the real outside with fancy weapons or fireballs, I'll get sent to an indoors where I can't use my computer to go to these cooler virtual worlds.

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

by drsmithy ( 35869 ) writes: <drsmithy@nOSPAm.gmail.com> on Thursday February 07, 2008 @10:14PM (#22343878)

I completely agree. Even compared to Windows NT 4, 2000 never looked bloated.
NT4 ran quite comfortably on 100Mhz-class Pentiums with 40MB+ of RAM. Windows 2000..... would not.
I think those are the main reasons that 2000 died out without much notice. On 64MB of RAM, it might have the edge, but you can by 1GB for $30 now. And Windows XP works just fine on any computer less than 5 years old. I don't see the same thing happening with Vista any time soon.
What. The. Fuck.
Where does this sort of stupidity come from ? Windows Vista, even in full-blown Aero mode, runs fine *right now* on machines 5+ years old (anything Ghz-class, with 1GB+ RAM and what is today US$30 video card has the performance to do so - so you can feasibly go back around 7 years, with a cheap video card upgrade). XP will also run well on machines that were around *10 years ago* (300Mhz P2s with 384M-512M RAM).
(Of course, discussions like this completely miss the point that how well something runs on very old hardware is basically irrelevant.)

Re:Real-world sp1 performance (Score:3, Funny)

by Ajehals ( 947354 ) writes: on Friday February 08, 2008 @12:18AM (#22344864) Journal

Buyers should also be aware that the miracle magnetic bead necklace also comes with a 5 day guarantee!

Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)

by mqduck ( 232646 ) writes: <mqduck@@@mqduck...net> on Friday February 08, 2008 @02:28AM (#22345568)

... the sky is typically blue, the grass is mostly green, and the Pope is Catholic.
News at 11: Breaking update on Pope's defecating habits.

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:2, Funny)

by jimboindeutchland ( 1125659 ) writes: on Friday February 08, 2008 @04:21AM (#22346034) Homepage

And Windows XP works just fine on any computer less than 5 years old. I don't see the same thing happening with Vista any time soon.

We'll probably have to wait about 5 years for that to happen :P

Re:My experience with Vista SP 1 (Score:2, Funny)

by Terrasque ( 796014 ) writes: on Friday February 08, 2008 @08:12AM (#22347072) Homepage Journal

Life imitates art [xkcd.com] it seems :)

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Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

The real upgrade to Windows 7 (Score:1, Funny)

You techies take the fall... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

THANK GOD (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:3, Funny)

O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

I don't want to start a holy war here but... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Vista SP2 is coming soon to the rescue... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Real-world sp1 performance (Score:3, Funny)

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