It's important, but it's just one piece of the puzzle.
I for one think MS have done the right thing here, at the level V8/ Opera and probably soon IE9 & FF4 is, hardware accelerated graphics are just as or more important when creating games and applications with rich interfaces and graphics.

>I *do* tell people that they're wrong when I hear them do that.

Don't you think that maybe, just maybe, *you* are wrong when everyone else is of a different opinion?
Nitpickers are irritating, but when your actually wrong as well it's just plain sad..

Just for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_krone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_krona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_krone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_kr%C3%B3

You missed the point! CNet and PC World seems to be very much just reproducing Microsoft's marketing material, just like they did when Vista came out.
And the benchmarks doesn't prove anything, if you ignore shutdown time, it looks to be slower overall then xp AND Vista..

And since Vista came out, both Linux and OS X have improved tremendously when it comes to performance and boot times.
Is Snow Leopard mentioned anywhere or compared to earlier OS X versions + all the Windows versions? NO..

Sincerely yours,
Vista 64bit user

Who said everyone was struggling? I didn't need to look far to find this..
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In most western countries we are starting to get problems from increasing pension costs. And this doesn't help.. Since living longer seems to be inevitable, we should probably accept that the minimum pension age is increased(since we live longer then we did 50 years ago). And the baby boom (~60's) generation should stop whining about cuts in their pensions asap, they are the number one cause for this problem in the first place (not producing enough children to support the cost of their own pension).