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> Windows 95 Preview Program is up and running on my ThinkPad 750! > (monochrome LCD, 33MHz, 20MB RAM). I'm quite pleased so far. I think I > like it better than OS/2 Warp. Performance is *much* better, I had the same inital reaction about Win95 being "better" than Warp. After some use though, I came across a number of things that _really_ bugged me. First, the multi-tasking is still not up to par. Another thing that bugged me was the way Win95 seems to push you into its way of doing things...I don't know if that makes sense, but it started to bug me after a bit. Although there are many choices available, it still seemed to be all too restricted. And the pop-up menu choices...which human factors guy designed those? Another important thing is that I do a lot of cross-platform things and need long filenames. Win95 may have long filenames under the GUI, but if you need to use a DOS-based app like perl or even zip, you lose the long filenames. Hopefully, that'll be fixed as new apps come out. One thing that was a plus at first rapidly became an annoyance and that is the 3-d effects and little animations all over. I think the animations can be shut off at least, although they did impress all my friends! ;) The instant make-over for existing apps is also a nice touch. I'm surprised that you think perf is much better with Win95 even with 20 mb RAM. If you had less than 16, I wouldn't find it surprising, but you seem to be at the mark that I needed to overcome in order to really see Warp move smoothly... > particularly with 16-bit Windows applications. DOS app performance also > seems better while running one session, though I suspect OS/2 Warp does > a better job of handling multiple sessions. It's been as stable as OS/2 I don't think DOS perf under Win95 is anywhere _near_ DOS perf under OS/2 _if_ you take the time to tweak things under OS/2. > so far, but I have yet to really start pushing it. The DriveSpace > compression program is much much better than Stacker for OS/2 and DOS. One thing is that Win95 and Warp _both_ seem to be a step backward in stability! Boy, if a unix only had Photoshop... The integration that Win95 achieves with its applets is truly awe-inspiring though... > Plug and Play really works! I set up Win95 while I had the TP away from Yeah, it took me by surprise. > no problem. I can do dynamic resolution changes. I loaded the Win 3.1 Dynamic resolutions changes are definately a nice point. > Power management seems to be the only problem. I loaded "Advanced Power Surprise! :) Maybe one day, notebook manufacturers and OS makers can get a clue and get power management down pat... > can't suspend from the ThinkPad Features Fuel program. I can't > hibernate at all--trying to do so just lands me in suspend mode. I hate to ask, but have you made sure you have a hibernation file?