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No magazine can be truly objective when they report on company products that they receive advertising revenue from. A negative report will mean lose of revenue. The newspaper industry found out this one the hard way with the automobile industry.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:35 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: XP vs. W2000
I wouldn't put my hopes on PC Magazine, I remember their "objective" reviews of OS/2... They are not Consumer Report for the IT industry.
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO
E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Elkins [SMTP:elkinsl_at_flash.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 9:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: XP vs. W2000
As we are treading towards OT land, I've got a Dell PIII 750 with
512MB on
my desktop running WIN2K Pro. I just bought a laptop, Compaq
Presario PIII
1.0 Gig Chip with 512MB running XP Pro. I run 8i and 9i on both
machines.
The laptop is definitely snappier when running OEM 9i. With
comparably
configured laptops and desktops, you would expect the desktop to be
much
faster. So, even though my laptop has a 1 Ghz chip vs the 750 Mhz
chip on my
desktop, I expected the laptop to be slower. And it is when running
disk
intensive operations -- 4500 RPM on the laptop vs 7200 RPM and a
caching
controller on the desktop. But otherwise, the laptop with XP seems
to be a
tad faster, and maybe it's strictly due to the faster processor. It
would be
interesting to run some benchmarks against the same machine running
XP vs.
WIN2K -- I'm sure PC Magazine or some other group has already done
this.
And I haven't been on the Internet with the laptop since the XP security
issues came to light. Something I need to address on the laptop.
Regards,
Larry G. Elkins
elkinsl_at_flash.net
214.954.1781
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