Usually that is simply because a transition from xp to 7 wipes out the
3-4 years of updates, corruptions, installs and uninstalls that a
computer gets sluggish with from everyday usage. The benchmarks on a
freshly formatted and installed with all the MS updates XP system vs the
same system updated to Win7 are generally too close to call, with some
going to xp and some going to 7. Tomshardware ran some tests and
basically a draw. Vista was worse than either on almost every count,
with only 1 or 2 benchmarks coming in Vista's favor.
On 3/22/2010 9:48 AM, Dean Saadallah wrote:
> While 64bit does make a tremendous difference, OS and hardware, simply
> installing Win7 32bit on an older PC equipped with 3-4Gig of RAM will indeed
> run circles around a previously installed XP performance with older apps.
> Try it and see.
>