There are a lot of reasons, beyond performance, why this is a bad idea. I'm well aware that it's done, but I would expect it won't be common for too much longer. How do you handle an e-discovery request when you have PSTs in unknown locations? What happens when a lawyer knows you have something and then it gets lost? It's nasty territory to be in.

I'd wager that Microsoft is willing to do this because the .pst format is becoming irrelevant. Medium and large businesses already want nothing to do with them due to issues with performance and management. That leaves small businesses and a small number of home users. With hosted exchange options becoming more common among small businesses, the need for .pst files is going away very quickly.

Actually, getting Windows to 640x480 is no easy task now.

So true. I don't want to think of how many hours I've spent searching "windows expose" on google. There are a couple of crappy implementations, but none of them are really usable. I used switcher for a while, but it only works if you set the process priority to maximum and it's difficult to make that preference persistent.

The biggest thing that I want is the ability to switch to the desktop, do work, then switch back to my active windows. In Vista and prior it can't be done. I'm not sure about 7, because I haven't been using it for very long.

That cleared it up for me. Thanks.

For those of us who don't have experience with how the big ISPs connect to each other, could someone shed some light on the situation? Does peering involve a physical connection or is it just down to advertising routes? I thought having your routes advertised was a good thing.

Or you could get a marketing person with a brain that would serve them ads for new software, a wireless N router or anything else that might be useful after one upgrades their computer.

We use the IOGear USB->VGA and USB->DVI adapters where I work and they're pretty impressive. As long as you're not trying to push video to a 30" cinema display I think they're a good solution.

As speeds go up, the amount of power needed to push information over copper at those speeds goes up as well. If I recall correctly, they've had some issues with 10 gig Ethernet over copper for just that reason. Eventually we're going to need to move to optical interconnects.

Unfortunately I think that happens enough with regular fuses, too.

You win, sir.

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Doing a quick archive and install should take you all of an hour unless you have a massive amount of applications that need their preferences reset.

Just wanted to throw it out there that 10.5 definitely runs slower for me than 10.4 did. I've got a 2.16Ghz Macbook Pro.