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Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
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| Mon, April 19 2004 | 10:23PM | PermaLink |
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"Waiting for the next
Windows Service Packs has become a way of life for Windows users, especially
professional ones. Microsoft's irregular barrages of bug fixes, new features and changes to
the institution that Windows has become are viewed with a mixture
of expectation and trepidation by home users (and with outright fear by
business IT departments). The new offering makes fundamental changes to the
way Windows XP operates, mostly in the name of security. In this article,
PCstats looks at the new features Windows XP Service Pack 2 offers, as well as
why the average user should bother with it." Another question lingering in our minds was "how
would Service Pack 2 affect the computers performance?" To find out, PCstats ran
a standard 2.4GHz PC through several trials with Bapco's Sysmark 2004.
Beginning with a standard Windows XP install, the system was updated to Service
Pack 1 and tested, then updated to Service Pack 2 and tested again. As you can
see from the results shown below, the impact of Service Pack 2 on a computer's
performance is very minor, if not negligible for the most part.
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WinXP |
SP1 |
SP2 |
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| Internet
Overall: |
178 |
175 |
173 |
| 3D Creation: |
176 |
173 |
168 |
| 2D Creation: |
210 |
211 |
210 |
| Web Publication: |
168 |
167 |
172 |
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| Office Overall: |
164 |
160 |
161 |
| Communication: |
172 |
168 |
172 |
| Document Creation: |
171 |
170 |
168 |
| Data Analysis: |
158 |
161 |
158 |
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