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Any Vista/Win7 comparisons on older CPUs?

Kelemvor

Kelemvor

Lifer
Wife has a laptop with a Celeron 1.7 and 2 gigs of RAM. Currently has Vista Home on it and it's relatively sluggish as to be expected. I have a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and am trying to decide what to do with it.

My laptop runs Vista 64 and flies great. I've read that Win7 works great on older machines so I'm wondering if my wife would see a significant performance jump if I installed Win7 Ultimate on her machine. Even if I have to disable some or all of the Bells and Whistles that make Ultimate what it is, if the core OS would be much faster, that'd be worth it

Anyone have any first hand experience with this or know of any reviews that directly compare Vista and 7 on older machines?

Thanks!!
 
Not that I know of but do know that Windows 7 is a little smaller than Windows Vista. At least the same versions are. Windows Vista 64 bit Ultimate is around 9 to 10 GB and Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate is around 7 to 8 GB (without the page file or the hibernation file on the same drive).
 
I'm running Windows 7 RC on my P4 2.4, 1 GB RAM work computer, and it runs better than XP ever did. I've also had no problems getting what I need installed and working on it (Remote desktops, VPN, Novell client, Cisco client, etc). Not to mention W7 was able to find drivers automatically that I couldn't find manually.

I have it running on a centrino laptop and have seen a performance increase over Vista in this case as well.
 
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