I now have two computers; one is an old second-hand 'whitebox' with a single-core Pentium 4 2-Mhz processor running XP Pro, and the other is a new Acer with a quad-core processor at 2.2 Mhz, running Vista Home Premium.
In speed tests, the two computers are almost exactly the same at uploading and downloading test files. This is partly because the Vista machine cannot be 'tweaked' to improve performance of its TCP/IP 'RWIN', or Receive Window, as can be done with XP.
In addition, the Vista machine uses about twice the resources required by the XP machine, and it takes longer to load on start-up. The best way to improve that performance is to disable most of the fancy features that make Vista so visually attractive, and in effect put it back to whatever we had before it.
Windows 7 is reportedly now out in beta among certain selected testers, and is said to be quite stable and very much improved over Vista. It is said that it will require fewer resources than Vista and run on the same hardware. If true, I can hardly wait.
It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.
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I now have two computers; one is an old second-hand
'whitebox' with a single-core Pentium 4 2-Mhz processor
running XP Pro, and the other is a new Acer with a
quad-core processor at 2.2 Mhz, running Vista Home
Premium.
In speed tests, the two computers are almost exactly the same at uploading and downloading test files. This is partly because the Vista machine cannot be 'tweaked' to improve performance of its TCP/IP 'RWIN', or Receive Window, as can be done with XP.
In addition, the Vista machine uses about twice the resources required by the XP machine, and it takes longer to load on start-up. The best way to improve that performance is to disable most of the fancy features that make Vista so visually attractive, and
in effect put it back to whatever we had before it.
Windows 7 is reportedly now out in beta among certain selected testers, and is said to be quite stable and very much improved over Vista. It is said that it will
require fewer resources than Vista and run on the same hardware. If true, I can hardly wait.
from http://xkcd.com/about/
What does XKCD stand for?
It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.
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