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I think this was a good look at things. I'm really liking this slate look. Unfortently part of me just see's this not being around come longhorn production time. But maybe they will make things better.

I thought the new no driver letter deal looked nice. I was blown away though. You have 2 FLOPPY DRIVES! even having one is uncommon for many now. Granted I wish i still had one everynow and then. I ditch it with my new computer, but the world still runs on floppies, so that is an issue.

I'm happy they ditched "my computer" for computer. Suddle change. I just change it to "home" anyways. At least windows is happy enough to let you change it's name and reflect that system wide. "my computer" just always seamed like a goofy name. I do wish they would nuke My documents, My music, .... and the like. I know of very few people in the world who use them. And they become anoying when things want to default save to them.

Also you mentioned the slide show feature, if this is like the bit in XP that allows you to veiw photos quickly then I have to say it is a great feature, it's on of those things that will never let me go back to earlier version of windows, not that i would want to for any reason. I've seen people comment on the point of this app before. I don't know how one doesn't find it great. It makes scanning through photos or showing them to friends real quick so easy.

At this point in time i'm not very worried about speed. I bet most of the slowness is just because it's not production. I'm sure the final version will be fast. Every version of windows gets quicker. Also by the time it comes out most of use will be running 2+ ghz athlon64s and 5 ghz prescotts. I doubt speed will be an issue. And I doubt many are going to bother putting it on hardware much slower then what you have, though it will probably be fine. XP runs on a PII 400 just fine, I don't see why Longhorn won't run on a 1ghz PIII just fine.

I must say it is tempting to try this out. Guess it's good to be a developer