Originally Posted by philipw
I'm hoping to be able to compare 3 things:
1) Old laptop with XP
2) Old laptop with WIN7
3) New laptop with WIN7

We received the new laptop and I compared these two machines:
old - Vostro 1500 Core 2 Duo 1.4Ghz 2GB XP
new - Vostro 3550 i5 2.3GHz 4GB WIN7

I didn't see any obvious difference in speed between the two. I see 1-3 seconds to pull up the eRX screen in both cases, where you can see the controls slowly draw.

I did see a 15 second draw one time only with the old machine, and haven't seen the same with the new machine. But that was the first attempt of the day and it's unclear if that is a real client difference.

So I was dissapointed enough with this first test that I haven't bothered to install WIN7 on one of the old machines, doesn't seem likely to work if the new machine with WIN7 isn't faster.

Philip, IT for wife's Family Medicine Practice