Let’s face it. The Nexus One has to be compared to the iPhone 3GS, whether you like it or not. Even though Google didn’t hype it as an iPhone killer ( but we bloggers did! ), the superphone is a challenger to the iPhone. Specifications wise, it beats the crap out of the iPhone, which still carries a 3 year old screen with low resolution...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet Hardware 2.0 has done a series of benchmarks, not raw ones with exact numbers, but with ratings as results. He took Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, 7 Beta 1 build 7000 (32 bit and 64 bit), 7 build 7048 (64 bit) and 7 build 7057 32 bit which is the most recent leaked build. He tested the builds on 2 separate systems...

Ed Bott has a good benchmarking review of how Windows 7 handle 512 MB of memory when compared to Windows XP and Windows Vista. I had recently posted about a touchscreen 6000 MHz UMPC with 512 MB running Windows 7 nicely, so it shows that Windows 7 is indeed a step forward in terms of performance on low end systems. Good news for all you netbook...