Win 7 Beta Bests XP and Vista

[Timothy Huber]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3236' target='_blank'>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3236</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"How does Windows 7 beta 1 compare to Vista and XP in terms of performance? That's a question that's been hitting my inbox regularly over the past few weeks. Let's see if we can't answer it!"</em></p><p>ZDnet ran a series of tests comparing the performance of XP, Vista and the Windows 7 beta on the same hardware.&nbsp; The results were nearly a sweep, with Windows 7 finishing first in 42 of the 46 individual tests. Results like that a particularly impressive when you consider that Windows 7 is a beta build and most likely hasn't received any fine-tuning.&nbsp; The more I hear, the more I'm anticipating good things from Windows 7.</p>

[Mattyc033444]

That's pretty amazing. I'm yet to install my beta build, and I plan on doing so soon over on my XP partition. Anyone know how stable this is for gaming? or any comparitive benchmarks?

[Hiid]

and also is it stable for older generation pcs?

[Cybrid]

and also is it stable for older generation pcs?

we could only dream right? more like anything over two years old will let out a high pitched scream before permanently giving up the ghost.