Nov 20
What significance does the number seventeen have? It’s the number of computers I’ve downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP for my customers.
I ran a benchmark utility (Geekbench) on one of them before downgrading, there was a 250 point difference between Vista and XP (in favor of XP). Ouch.
Posted at 8:15 am by Aaron Nelsen
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November 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Yeah, that sounds about right.
I think I had about a 200 point shift in my geekbench score when I downgraded on the laptop. By the way, Jared D loves Vista. Yeah, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be his friend anymore.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
He’s also obsessed with his Zune…
June 17th, 2008 at 2:32 am
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