What becomes immediately evident working with a Gateway NV74 with a 17.3″ screen in Windows 7 is that its is lovely to have so much extra room – now there is plenty for PS panels:
The response time seems reasonable but I shall have detailed comparisons by days end hopefully. One complaint on the keyboard – it is a large layout as well except for the Left Shift key which is only the size of a regular key . So \\i <== I keep doing this while typing, hitting the neighboring Backslash key, when I want to hit caps.
I have spent some degree of time making the following replacements:
Notepad++ for Windows 7 Notepad
UltraExplorer for Windows 7 Explorer
IZarc for the the Zip file facility in Windows 7 Explorer
Filezilla for FTP operations not prominently supported in Windows 7
Given the above a)are free software and b)much superior to what Windows 7 provides- Microsoft should contribute $5-10M to each vendor[the cost of a ten person development team for 2 years to produce the equivalent software to say nothing of the $100 of millions saved because Windows users did not desert the OS because the Redmond offerings were so …uh “feature deprived”].