Jeremy Zawodny says Windows 7 is “snappy” on his T61 – but I wanted to go him one better.
I’m writing this post on a painfully dated IBM T42 (right, that means a pre-Lenovo Thinpad, circa 2004) and Windows 7 actually outperforms Ubuntu 8.10.
Repeat: Windows 7 is faster than Ubuntu 8.10 on 512MB of ram – that’s Vista – with Aero turned on – and it’s faster.
(No, I don’t have any benchmarks on this, but seriously) The boot time is actually obnoxiously faster – but Jaunty should take care of that.
Oddly (or appropriately?), I still tend to prefer a simple gnome desktop – Chrome on Windows 7 is tough to resist though.
