I know we don't need another Vista thread, but AnandTech have done a preview of it here - http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2780
They spent a lot of time comparing it (mostly unfavorably) with Tiger.
Some lowlights:
In all my years of using Windows, I never realised that moving a window around the screen requires 30+% of the CPU. I just compared to OS X and it's true - I see CPU usage spiking at 30-40% in XP. OS X is barely above 10%.
They spent a lot of time comparing it (mostly unfavorably) with Tiger.
Some lowlights:
- It takes up 10GB on the hard drive (although debugging is enabled so that takes up a lot of space).
- It very quickly eats up RAM (again when debugging is off, that is likely to be reduced)
- The Expose clone is badly done (harder to use, artifacts in the angled view making it hard to read the contents of the windows).
- The new security model is a real pain.
- Games performance is much lower than XP.
- General performance is lower but not as bad as for games.
- Vista Basic uses 97% of the CPU just to move a window about on the screen: see http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2780&p=13
In all my years of using Windows, I never realised that moving a window around the screen requires 30+% of the CPU. I just compared to OS X and it's true - I see CPU usage spiking at 30-40% in XP. OS X is barely above 10%.