Ultimate vs Home Premuim vs. Professional...speed??

I've tried to look this up and have found overhwhelming conflicting answers. Are there any differences in SPEED between the different 64 bit versions of Windows 7 (Ultimate, Professional, and Home Premium)? The answers I've seen all confirm more processes active, but people disagree whether that affects the speed at all. This board tends to have much better answers, so I thought I'd bring my inquiry to the smarter minds at NBR. Any ideas?

 

Speed difference = negligible or non existent

More processes, isn't a big issue if you have 2GB or more of memory. The bigger question is what reasons do you have for Pro or Ultimate? If you are a gamer, then Home Premium is fine for everyday use so save your money.

If you need Pro or Ultimate for either Bitlocker or Backup and Restore functions you can get those utilities for free, by reputable companies.

 

sure my idea is WHAT apps are you running as well as in the background.

for us a clean load on the SAME machine results in SAME speed. now once you start loading apps different flavors handle different apps .... differently. for example Photoshop for some bizarre reason runs on Pro faster as where our point of sales system likes Home by milliseconds. Ultimate tends to slow down faster especially if you load on too many non 64 bit coded apps. we tested this for 3 months when 7 was both in beta and right after the RC. Pro seems to be the best overall but depending on your application and need who cares about 120ms?

 

I'll have a few games (mostly higher end) Microsoft Office, MSN/Skype, Microsoft Security Essentials, Songbird, Cursor FX, Daemon Tools, Adobe Reader Lite, and potentially some anatomy/drug/chemistry/biology programs, software, and ebooks. My options are Home Premium and Ultimate. I got Ultimate for 7 bucks a year ago from school, and Home Premium comes free with my laptop, so I'm deciding on which one to use. I do a little but of OS customization and Ultimate gives you more options there with editing files/programs I believe, but I don't want that to come at the cost of taking up with HDD space (I only have a 120 GB SSD), memory space (only 4 GB Ram), or speed.

 

use either and then strip it down. there are some good guides on the net for doing minimal size installations.

personally Id say home premium to keep your install as small as possible. Ultimate will eat up drive space more

 

How will Ultimate do that? Are there any ways to avoid it? Are they just the guides you mentioned?

 

Ultimate has alot of extra code stufed into it for encryption, backups, ADS and all that jazz. as for avoiding it you would have to manually remove it somehow but I have ever bothered as my 7 Ultimate machines have rather large SSD's in them.

here is a guide I used to use
GUIDE: Installing Windows 7 To Use 3GB Of SSD/HDD Space

 

What is the back up feature? I'm using Home now and I'm able to back up normally. What's the difference in Ultimate's?

 

Pro/Ultimate can backup to a network backup server or NAS easier

 

you can do a anytime ugrade from home to ultimate by just input an upgradekey!without any install medium!!
so they should use both the same space on disk

 

There is no (or virtually no) difference in speed between Ultimate and Professional.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...oducts/compare
As you can see there the only differences are that Windows 7 Ultimate supports bitlocker and has multiple language support. Neither of these things will slow your computer down at all (bitlocker will only slow it down if you enable it) and removing things like language files will not speed up your computer.

 

Right, there's zero speed difference between versions, only added or missing "features".

 

Use RT 7 Lite to slimline your Win 7 install. It saves quite a bit of space if you do not use a lot of features, but the speed isn't much difference. Very useful for those with small SSDs, I can easily have all my programs, games and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in a 32GB SSD.

 

Whoa, what games do you play, lol? Most of the ones I play take 8-12GB each.

 

NES, SNES and Sega?

 

CS: Source, Worms Armaggedon, SC, WC3 are installed (they're all pretty small <2.5GB each) but I don't usually have time for games. Like yesterday was on call, woke up at 4:30am on Friday morning, just got back at 4:30pm on Saturday. Passed out when I came home and woke up at 10:30pm. Probably going to read a bit now then sleep again to reset my schedule for tomorrow. I'm a medical student doing my surgery rotation at a hospital. I'll get around to SC2 maybe when I'm doing psychiatry in a few months lol.