Windows Vista comes with this swanky slick user interface called Aero (transparency et. al.) I thought my 'new' laptop with 2.16GHz CPU and 2GB RAM should be able to handle it. Nah! Somehow my old Compaq Evo 620C felt faster with it's 1.5GHz and 512MB RAM.
Just yesterday, I had some sense to switch back to the Windows Standard display scheme, and boy, did the parachute break!
Windows Vista and Windows 7 (and later) should really run a first time wizard warning users (especially speed aficionados like me) about the performance penalty (yes, I go for looks too) and provide an option to disable Aero, or at least provide the user an option to optimize aesthetics or performance.
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