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1. Comment - Remembering Windows 95's launch 15 years later

   (Aug 24, 2010 - 4:24 PM)

   Wow, it's not often tech articles make me nostalgic.
   
   I was only a teenager at the time, but I managed to get in as an official Chicago (Win95's codename) beta test site. Those were the days of fidonet osdebate flame wars, drooling over NT's new architecture, curiosities like Win32s and marvels of technological compromise like Win95's 'thunking' layer.
   
   Ah, the good ole days when life was simple. :)

2. Comment - The final score: Firefox 3.5 performs at 251% the speed of 3.0

   (Jul 1, 2009 - 3:43 PM)

   "If you can't see this, you're blind" - That's such a stupid statement. While synthetic benchmarks are interesting, these tests have little bearing on real world performance.
   
   This would be like testing GPUs with purely synthetic benchmarks. Real gamers test performance with the games themselves. Likewise, real browser performance tests should give an indication of how the browser will perform in day-to-day use.
   
   Are any of these browsers 10X faster at loading a web page? I think not. How about 2X? Not even.
   
   These benchmark articles are such a waste of bandwidth.