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1. i agree, there's something very wrong with nvidia's "accelerated" drivers, at least on the gf4 series. are you using the legacy version (pre-9631 i think). the open intel gm945 drivers seem to far exceed nvidia's 420go drivers on my laptops. maybe it's the old 2d sux on nvidia issue....

2. this really depends on your hardware - some nics are like winmodems and offload a lot to the cpu. funnily enough my realtek 8169 gige cards are supposed to be crap, but in fact they outperform my intel pro 1000ct cards on cpu usage and top speed. i've never seen more than about 10% cpu shifting gigs over the lan. i don't think its a driver issue.

3. not sure what you're trying to say there. my wd-satas (not raptors, but 16mb/7200rpm/sata300) get 60MB/s, but i think that cached reading of yours is wrong.

4. well that's java for you, blame sun for that! but seriously, i've never seen it that bad, however it usually is the highest cpu hog on my machine, same goes for java 1.5

5. i don't get your point there. is this relating to 4? i've never seen performance of anything get that bad. do you have enough ram or a multi-core/ht cpu?

i've been into solaris for years, i've used it as a desktop, but that pretty much sucks, i'm about to put a netra in a datacentre though, sun kit rocks as servers.

as far as screenshots go, yeah they are pretty pointless if only to show off eye candy and not new apps.

i do get fed up of osnews articles not actually mentionning new FEATURES of new releases, just the new theme....