Comments on: Using Windows Server 2008 as a client desktop http://www.fishbrains.com/posts/251 Windows Tech, Beach Life, Choosing to be Rich Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bret Fisher http://www.fishbrains.com/posts/251#comment-9247 Bret Fisher Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:57:11 +0000 http://www.fishbrains.com/?p=251#comment-9247 Bob, everything I've seen is not a real word usage scenario. Turning off the GUI features and running CPU and I/O hammering benchmarks doesn't necessarily make your system run faster as you use it. A better analysis would be: "which one boots and logs in faster" with the real world usage of MANY auto-start apps. Or "when running 5 apps at once, how responsive is a new browser window launch" or "what is the CPU usage of playing a HD Quicktime video"... I guess my point was that in day to day usage as a desktop platform, I use both, and actually find things a bit slower and quirkier on win2008 as a desktop (it's a rock solid server). Bob, everything I’ve seen is not a real word usage scenario. Turning off the GUI features and running CPU and I/O hammering benchmarks doesn’t necessarily make your system run faster as you use it. A better analysis would be: “which one boots and logs in faster” with the real world usage of MANY auto-start apps. Or “when running 5 apps at once, how responsive is a new browser window launch” or “what is the CPU usage of playing a HD Quicktime video”…

I guess my point was that in day to day usage as a desktop platform, I use both, and actually find things a bit slower and quirkier on win2008 as a desktop (it’s a rock solid server).

]]> By: Bob http://www.fishbrains.com/posts/251#comment-9236 Bob Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:24:13 +0000 http://www.fishbrains.com/?p=251#comment-9236 "Mostly false claims of faster-then-Vista performance, etc. " Care to justify that? A fair few other sites have detailed graphs highlighting the performance differences. “Mostly false claims of faster-then-Vista performance, etc. ”
Care to justify that?
A fair few other sites have detailed graphs highlighting the performance differences.

]]> By: James http://www.fishbrains.com/posts/251#comment-9233 James Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:08:57 +0000 http://www.fishbrains.com/?p=251#comment-9233 Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James. Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

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