Windows 7 is hardly faster than previous Windows
Performance of Windows 7 is about the same as Vista. You even may find it's lower than XP.
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1 Overall, Windows 7's performance improvement over Windows Vista is slight ... Windows 7 was roughly 3.6 percent faster than Windows Vista.
Nick Mediati, PC World
2 Windows 7 continues Vista's piggish ways with regard to RAM consumption and CPU utilization. Like its notorious predecessor Vista, Windows 7 consumes significantly more RAM than Windows XP.
Randall C. Kennedy, InfoWorld
3 W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista.
By John Breeden II, GCN LAB
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