Originally Posted by
Bobster
Nobody knows. Vista won't be optimized until Service Pack 1 is released. (And then you'll probably need new drivers and more software upgrades.) In the meantime, people will discover tweaks to improve performance. But right now XP wins, and I'm not talking about games, look at the Photoshop benchmark.
Well, hate to say it, but my machine(s) on Vista run much smoother than they did under XP.
My drive speeds are much better (I'm using a 2Gb readyboost), my video drivers are much faster than they were under XP and boot time has been cut in half.
Those are the figures I care about.