Windows 8 Speed Tests: It's Faster at Pretty Much Everything

Ok here we go again. Thanks Maurizio.

Windows 8 Speed Tests: It's Faster at Pretty Much Everything: "The following tests were performed on an (overclocked) 3.8 GhZ i7 machine with 6GB of RAM, a 2TB hard drive, an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT, and connected to the internet over Ethernet at a maximum speed of 20mbps.

The following tests were performed on an (overclocked) 3.8 GhZ i7 machine with 6GB of RAM, a 2TB hard drive, an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT, and connected to the internet over Ethernet at a maximum speed of 20mbps.

	Windows 8	Windows 7
Boot Time (Windows Screen to Desktop)	0:10	0:35
Compress a ~700MB File	0:29	0:32
Decompress a ~700MB File	0:11	0:12
Duplicate a ~700MB File	0:01	0:02
Encode a Movie in Handbrake	8:06	8:15
Cold Start 9 Applications	0:46	0:46
Open 10 Tabs in Chrome	0:07	0:07
3dmark10 Score	6470 (5218 Graphics, 23098 CPU)	6455 (5199 Graphics, 23448 CPU)
Total Time	9:56	10:29