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Is Windows 10 faster than Win 8.1?

Sep 22, 2015 2:18PM PDT

In my company we use mostly cpus' on i5 and 4GB RAM, and my question is, is Win 10 faster then 8.1? Is it worth to upgrade?

Note: Post edited by moderator to remove company name/link which is unnecessary for the question at hand.

Post was last edited on September 22, 2015 2:32 PM PDT

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(NT) depends on your usage
Sep 22, 2015 2:35PM PDT
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In the tests I've seen they
Sep 23, 2015 4:02AM PDT

are about the same with some tweaks here and there some things may be faster. The bigger factor in performance is hardware setup. SSD's and memory.

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It seems too close to call.
Sep 23, 2015 7:40AM PDT