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    Vista Home premium is faster than Vista Ultimate?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Parijat, Sep 15, 2008.

  1. Parijat

    Parijat Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys,

    I have a question, is Vista home premium faster than Vista ultimate? I thought of it because vista ultimate comes with additional features like incremental backups etc.

    Is the speed difference noticeable between these two?

    thanks
     
    Parijat, Sep 15, 2008
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Not going to be different really on a fresh installation. Might notice a difference if you enable the bitlocker and such on Ultimate though.
     
    Hep!, Sep 15, 2008
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  3. Guntraitor Sagara

    Guntraitor Sagara Notebook Evangelist

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    Not quite.. depends on how your own hardware handles VISTA. (CPU, RAM etc.) :)
     
    Guntraitor Sagara, Sep 15, 2008
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  4. allfiredup

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    I've wondered the same thing from the first time I saw the comparison of the four Vista 'versions'. Simple logic would indicate that Ultimate, having the most features (and additional "services" running to support those features) would be the most resource-intensive.

    That would also mean that Vista Home Basic is the fastest version, which it probably is! I have explored Home Basic briefly (while cleaning all the crap off of a new laptop for a neighbor kid). I don't use Windows Media Center (much ado about nothing!) and when I see the Aero Glass or 3D-Flip visual candy in Home Premium, it only reminds me that they're using additional system resources!
     
    allfiredup, Sep 15, 2008
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  5. Hep!

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    The only version that is really less resource intensive is Home Basic. Some systems can run Home Basic but not other versions.
     
    Hep!, Sep 15, 2008
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  6. RangerXML

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    I would bet that Business might be a bit less system intensive then Premium and Ultimate because the media player doesn't load on boot, but that just opinion.
     
    RangerXML, Sep 15, 2008
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  7. Hep!

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    That's not opinion, sounds logical to me.
     
    Hep!, Sep 15, 2008
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  8. Parijat

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    Thanks for the replies guys :)
     
    Parijat, Sep 16, 2008
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    I went from premium to ultimate and haven't really noticed a difference either way except when deleting things (bit slower) otherwise seems the same just more feature rich
     
    otaku, Sep 16, 2008
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