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		misterbwong on July 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 8 hours of Windows 7 Amazon sales outstripped Vist... A lot of the perceived speed comes from barely-noticeable tweaks to the UI. Win7 does benchmark a bit faster than Vista, but it really is the UI (window response/refresh times, etc) that makes a world of difference.

litewulf on July 15, 2009 [–]

(In general, people notice response time not throughput. I think thats a bit difficult to capture in benchmarks.)

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