I upgraded my laptop yesterday to an Intel 160GB Gen2 X25-M, I also doubled the memory to 6GB and moved from WinXP 32-bit to Win7-64bit.

What a dramatic difference, everything is so much faster and I wasn't really unhappy with the speed before hand. Of course I have no idea which changes actually made the difference, as I changed 5 variables in one go:

- 4 year old OS install to clean install
- 5400rpm drive to SSD
- 3GB to 6GB
- WinXP to Win7
- 32-bit to 64-bit

I have to say that Win7 is so much better that Vista. I have stuck to XP on my main day-to-day machine because every time I used Vista it just felt wrong. Win7 just feels right.

Even the Taskbar isn't annoying me too much, which is odd because the same mixing of open apps and app shortcuts in OSX really winds me up.
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