New laptop

[Calneon]

if theirs 1 little thing that realy annoys me and no positives why would i want to "upgrade".

Also i like wmp11. Its a resource whore, but otherwise its fine.

Will bench it tongiht

The benefits are basically in the background where you don't really notice them. Little performance tweaks everywhere where MS learnt from mistakes it made in Vista. Also little things such as desktop background slideshows are awesome (I have over 100 backgrounds that change every hour), the explorer took a bit of getting used to but now I find it much better, you have libraries you can set up yourself, and favourite folder links. The ability to drag windows to the edge of the screen and have it auto resize to half the screen is great for when you want to have two windows open at once, you don't have to move them manually. Homegroups make it easy to share folders across two Windows 7 PCs (i.e. my laptop and PC). Also, everything just works with it.

[VoX]

The benefits are basically in the background where you don't really notice them. Little performance tweaks everywhere where MS learnt from mistakes it made in Vista. Also little things such as desktop background slideshows are awesome (I have over 100 backgrounds that change every hour), the explorer took a bit of getting used to but now I find it much better, you have libraries you can set up yourself, and favourite folder links. The ability to drag windows to the edge of the screen and have it auto resize to half the screen is great for when you want to have two windows open at once, you don't have to move them manually. Homegroups make it easy to share folders across two Windows 7 PCs (i.e. my laptop and PC). Also, everything just works with it.

Everything I've underlined I've either got in Vista, or Vista does it perfectly well and easily enough.


VH - Raping the taskbar is moot, big enough screens alleviate it, and you can't seriously have that many windows open it rapes the taskbar and still be able to concentrate all of them/need them all. If it really is an issue, you can set Vista to use purely icons and be just as confused as with Win7.