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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] rdri@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I always said that 8.1 is the most optimized even compared to 7 (mostly because they launched it together with phone version which shared a lot of stuff with 8 so it includes a lot of optimizations under the hood). Most people never cared to use it apparently.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They made so many terrible Windows 8.1 tablets which they had to support. I used one of these with an atom z3735f and 2GB of RAM as my only Windows computer for a long time, and Windows 8.1 was completely smooth on it despite the anemic hardware. Some even cheaper tablets and mini PCs released with 1GB RAM and 16GB emmc yet somehow also were also able to run Windows 8.1 okay.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Was that Windows 8.1, or Windows RT?

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Full Windows 8.1 thanks to Intel's x86 tablet push at the time.

Windows RT never made it to any other devices besides the Surface RT iirc and was pretty much an immediate failure.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I dumpster dived a Nokia Lumia tablet that had RT on it. It got used as a kitchen Youtube viewer for a couple months before I gave it away.

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

If I could just experience the high of having Windows Phone sounds and experience… I would be so happy. For all the shit it got, Windows Phone is still the most beautiful mobile OS, and the way it utilized sound is still next level.