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Well windows seven definitely has drawbacks as well.
I had a hard time finding 'run', so that I could get to a command line. finally did a search for 'run' then pinned that to my task bar.
Not totally jazzed with how services works. While it is neat that Task Manager shows both processes and services, you are able to kill less of them. I am still trying to find a good resource on which processes I can nuke. I had this notebook down to 18 processes under XP. My desktop at home does great on 15 with XP pro. But it also has no wifi!
Wheras Win 7 has about 38-41 in most situations. Not killing me, but JEEEZ, this is a 2ghz core 2 duo, with 2 gigs of ram and a 7200rpm 200gig hard drive (not a bad notebook). And my ram usage is at 48%!
I also am pretty annoyed with HP. I had to print out a boarding pass formyflight to NYC today. The HP 'win 2k/XP/Vista' driver that I downloaded, all 100mb, returned an error that it could not function on this operating system! Well Sonar 7 (last years version) runs great, as does crusty old photoshop 7. Blackberry Desktop Manager 4.0.37 and Syncplcity are just peachy.
So I had to go install the HP driver (180mb!) on my Mac-mini and physically move the damn printer across the room.


On the plus side...
The task bar thing works great. Love the preview! You can even see a mini view of the video if you are watching youtube or adultswim. I must say I am really impressed with how well the graphics of the OS work. I actually get snappier smoother looking UI interaction than I did with XP on the same machine! Media Player 11 in Windows seven works rather well (comes with a DVD codec! unlike XP sp3!) Though the subtitle options and root menu optins are rather buried.
To access any real configuration options of media player you have to switch from 'player' mode to 'library' mode. Which is not exactly intuitive. This is a theme with Win 7. My Documents is all under 'Libraries' which is kind of an awkward word to me. Not that I have any problem with books! I just think it is an old fashioned armature to hang your media off of. A library is very linear and rigid. Digital media is not.