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My MacBook Pro has been declared legally dead and now I've gotten a new shiny notebook to work on. It's a bit of a difference from the ordinary for me - I'm a dyed in the wool Mac girl and using a Windows 7 PC is a bit to get used to. As always, the first thing that comes to mind is that MS really needs to stop trying to be Apple. Windows 7 is better in some areas than its predecessor, but it still tries to ape OS X and fails horribly.