Originally Posted by jephree

Cool.

How do you like Windows 7?

I'm not sure yet. So far it seems to me to be just another version of vista that needs a lot of work [which I expected]. I haven't used it all that much yet. It is quite similar to Vista. I'm sad that they took out the windows switcher. Also the start up logo is cool but if I stare at it while it is booting up it starts to hurt my eyes. I also don't like how long it takes to boot up. I'll just have to decide as I use it more.

A couple recent articles:

Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now?


Windows 7 build 7048 vs. Windows 7 beta 1 vs. Vista vs. XP performance shootout - which is best? | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Another recent article on game performance. They compared a number of games on Win Vista and Win 7.

Windows 7 Vs. Vista: Which Runs Crysis Fasterer?

Windows 7 vs. Vista Graphics Performance - Company of Heroes - OS, Software & Networking by ExtremeTech

I don't know - comparing a pre-release version of Win7 to a final release version of Vista is little more than a curiosity, and not really fair. While disclaimers are everywhere that this is still a pre-final version, it just seems like these reviewers should stick to statistics, and not comparisons.

I also felt it was funny that people were already benchmarking a non-final version but the results was interesting to me though.

I would be very interested if they did a comparison of Win7 and WinXP and see how it stands. Then of course, WinXP does not have DX10...

Originally Posted by Kaistar

I also felt it was funny that people were already benchmarking a non-final version but the results was interesting to me though.

I would be very interested if they did a comparison of Win7 and WinXP and see how it stands. Then of course, WinXP does not have DX10...

Windows 7 has DX 11 so can you truly compare it to Vista?

Haha good point good point. I totally forgot about that. I remember there was a DX10 for XP project some time back but I'm not sure what happened to it.

Just to note this thread specific to the DX11

http://www.d-a-l.com/help/windows-7-...ectx-11-a.html

Unlike DX10 DX11 will be backwards compatible on older hardware.

Originally Posted by Kaistar

Haha good point good point. I totally forgot about that. I remember there was a DX10 for XP project some time back but I'm not sure what happened to it.

Alky Project? It's been dead over a year now. I stopped caring once I got into Vista last summer.

Windows 7 has DX 11 so can you truly compare it to Vista?

Why not? A benchmark is a benchmark.