Windows Vista SP1 Tried & Tested

Microsoft recently released SP1 for Windows Vista. I’ve been using that OS since Monday. You see, I’m on vacation in Thailand. Naturally, a lot of things feel a little alien to me right now. I find it ironic that when I turned on the laptop I was going to use, it was also foreign to me. Sure, it’s Windows, but the differences are there (I still can’t find the “Go Up One Folder” button in Windows Explorer). Anyway, here are the benefits of upgrading to SP1.

Did Vista have speed trouble? Well, yes and no. When we ran the industry-standard PCMark05 benchmark on both Windows XP (SP2, we hear SP3 will be faster) and Vista, Vista came out ahead by a sizable margin on exactly the same machine, scoring a 10,403, compared to XP’s score of 9024, a 15.28% speed increase for Windows Vista. That’s a noticeable difference. How did Vista feel, speed-wise? We immediately realized we were dealing with increased speed over XP, over a long weekend of mousing around the PC, running Photoshop and Adobe Premiere, running benchmarks and browsing websites.

You can read about the hiccups of the Vista vs XP comparison via the source link. You didn’t really expect it was all going to be nice and pretty, right?

Source: Gizmodo

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