Sorry to go off-topic again, but I just had too
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Originally Posted by matthey
I recently bought a new "PC" going from a Core2Duo with 32 bit XP to a i5 with 64 bit 7 (my brother and friends wanted me to play a game with them where XP was "obsolete"). The CPU is supposed to be twice as fast per core and there are twice as many cores but 7 is so much slower
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Odd. I recently went from XP to Win10 on my low end Amd 3400 APU (bought without OS). Added some RAM, and Win10 performance is very similar to XP on this machine. Glad I skipped Win7.
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Originally Posted by matthey
I had a XP laptop with Pentium M fan failure which dropped it back to 800MHz which is so many times faster CPU than my AmigaOS 3.9 68060@75MHz but it was unbearably slow as I could watch the screen update and I had to hold the mouse button down over buttons to get them to register.
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Really? I used XP on a 667Mhz Pentium 3 for years. Worked fine. Only 'heavy' pages in web browsers were slow.