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Windows 10 is adding an Ultimate Performance mode for pros
- Zekio 9y agoGonna be interesting to see benchmarks especially after seeing how little the "Game" mode did
- KarenSatantsby 9y agoI thought Apple OSX was Windows 10 Ultimate performance mode for professionals.. What other than dentist office xray and Auto-cad has anyone used it for professional reasons beyond word? I mean dont you set up a linux box or use a Mac to do stuff that wrings out your pc?
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoWill it still have adverts and all that candy crush shit in the start menu?
- gebeeson 9y agoAnd hopefully it will also destroy RDS connectivity and mangle printer drivers. 1703 and 1709 did both quite convincingly.
- tsomctl 9y agoHow about the annoying bugs in the widget toolkit used for the start menu and control panel?
- vitorgrs 9y agoThey actually 'fixed' this on latest builds.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoDid I just read "nice performance you have there, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to it"? In other words, unless this is some truly groundbreaking way of going to ludicrous speed, my bet is "we're renaming High Power (or removing, unless you pay for the ultimate version), and introducing another, weaker set of settings named High Power."
- Y_Y 9y agoA couple of years ago I would have written this kind of thing off as anti-M$ shilling, but the passive-aggressive authoritarianism if 10 had changed my mind. How has computing gotten so bad that most general purpose machines have an actively harmful, much hated OS forced onto them?
- Piskvorrr 9y agoSo would I, but alas, that's the current predicament. Trust me, I would be really happy for a Microsoft that actually listens for an answer to "where do you want to go today?"
- sidcool 9y agoWindows 10 ruined my 8 GB RAM laptop. The battery life's gone shit and performance down the drain. Windows 8.1 was way better, strictly relatively.
- Ascetik 9y agoI agree, I worked in IT and was the last one to move from 8.1 to 10. I loved 8.1, it was rock solid. People on my team were always complaining about Windows 10 and I'm just sittin' here with my rock solid stable OS like "amirite?"
- trendia 9y agoIf removing "features" improves performance, one has to wonder how much overhead those features have. If I remove the UI/window manager from Linux and run software from the command line, I don't see a massive performance boost. That's not to say I would run a server with the UI, but it's not like I'm seeing a 100% improvement or anything. Thus, there must be some difference between the acceptable overhead of Linux vs. Windows. It just makes me think that Windows continues to add features as long as that n+1 feature doesn't slow down the PC, and thus doesn't stop until the PC is slowed down. Thus, every Windows OS will have a maximal amount of overhead.
- DrFell 9y agoThey should start with a barely acceptable performance mode.