Win7, Vista SP1, and XP SP3 Bootup Benchmarks


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The hardware: My test system has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 3.16GHz with 4GB of RAM.

Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, and the Windows 7 Preview are all installed on the same, physical SATA hard drive

Test Set 1: Average time to reach desktop

Windows 7 Ultimate (Preview, PDC edition, 32-bit): 32 seconds

Vista Ultimate (32-bit, SP1): 33 seconds

XP Professional (SP3): 40 seconds

Test Set 2: Average time to reach login prompt

Windows 7 Ultimate (Preview, PDC edition, 32-bit): 23 seconds

Vista Ultimate (32-bit, SP1): 24 seconds

XP Professional (SP3): 29 seconds

The Results

As you can see, the Windows 7 Preview is just a HAIR speedier than Windows Vista, not the 20% we saw in the first set of tests (I attribute this to Service Pack 1), and way, way faster than Windows XP (8 and 6 seconds, respectively). While it's not the 20% speed increase I saw in my first round of tests, it still bodes well for Windows 7, which still has a lot of growing up to do from its Preview status.

http://lifehacker.com/5082336/windows-7-vi...chmarks-updated

Edited by jamesVault

Good post.. I am loving Win7 on my laptop, and it does seem to perform/boot much faster than Vista.

Windows 7 is the operating system that is going to save Microsoft from being doomed.

Definately agree here (Y)

Vista basic maybe... but thats about it... for anythign else you need more RAM.

nah, i run vista ultimate on a laptop with 1gig ram and it runs fine.

the only issue maybe with his D800 is if it has video that can run Aero or not.

Well, Windows 7 is VERY impressive from what I've used so far. It whips the pants off with Windows Vista.

I just figured I'd also post up some info about boot times on my MacBook (2.16GHz, 2GB of RAM, 950GMA)

Mac OS 10.5 - 27 Seconds

Windows XP - 55 Seconds

Windows Vista - 44 Seconds

Windows 7 - 40 Seconds

(All Clean Installs)

And on my main Machine (Q9450, 8GB of RAM, RAID0 Array, ATi 4850)

Windows XP - 2-4 minutes (weird BIOS bug ASUS are looking into)

Windows Vista - 55 seconds

Windows 7 - 42 Seconds

(All Partitioned/Clean Installs)

But once the system is up Windows 7 just flys by, it dosn't churn on the hard drive or anything.

I have XP SP3 on a laptop (5400RPM HDD, single core AMD Turion 1.8GHz processor, 1.5GB DDR RAM), and it boots to desktop in 32 seconds.

Well, Windows 7 is VERY impressive from what I've used so far. It whips the pants off with Windows Vista.

I just figured I'd also post up some info about boot times on my MacBook (2.16GHz, 2GB of RAM, 950GMA)

Mac OS 10.5 - 27 Seconds

Windows XP - 55 Seconds

Windows Vista - 44 Seconds

Windows 7 - 40 Seconds

(All Clean Installs)

A clean install of XP doesn't take that long to boot :no:

Don't really know which XP version the OP was using but both Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 and XP Professional SP3 x86 take about 30-35 secs to boot up on my 1.5 year old HP Pavilion dv9312 notebook.

I have XP SP3 on a laptop (5400RPM HDD, single core AMD Turion 1.8GHz processor, 1.5GB DDR RAM), and it boots to desktop in 32 seconds.

A clean install of XP doesn't take that long to boot :no:

Agreed. If it is indeed a clean install, after the bios post it should take no more than 20 seconds to boot.

On my machine it's (x2 5000+, 4 gb ram, 250 gb hard drive)

Windows Vista: 35 seconds

Windows 7 (build 6801): 37 seconds

Windows XP SP3: 38 seconds

this is time to a usable desktop with everything loaded ect...

they all have pretty much the same boot time.

Seriously if windows vista takes any longer to boot than xp for you you have a problem on your end on every machine I've used it on boot time is great.

all you need to do to make any windows os boot fast is make sure you only have what you need at start up:

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Edited by ViperAFK
Of course not they have tooi many companies using their product. It is called a monopoly. :)

and for once monopoly is good :)

interesting boot time results. i hope final product will perform no worse...maybe even ebtter?

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