I was reading Scott Kurtz’s latest blog, and I started wondering: what, exactly, is the difference between Photoshop 7 and CS2? I’m seriously drawing a blank. All I got is a slightly improved interface, and that I can remap Gaussian Blur to Ctrl+B. (And that’s just a bonus effect of the first point.) If I fullscreen, which I hardly ever do, I can scroll the document past the screen edges. I never use anything that wasn’t in PS7, and it lags. (I realize that a 1.8 Ghz Athlon 64 isn’t going to win any speed contests, but the speed loss compared to PS7 is unholy.)

I think I’m gonna try using PS7 again for a while, it turns out it’s still installed, so yay me for not cleaning out my hard drives like I should. And set aside some cash for a new processor, maybe get on the dual-core bandwagon. Didja know they’re putting two processors on a single chip now? (What worries me is that, if I recall correctly, there now exist quad-core processors. I might understand that if there were any programs outside of video editing and 3D rendering that actually took advantage of multiple cores, but unless you plan on running four processor-intensive threads at once it’s just a cock substitute that goes in your computer. Like a really tiny H2. With four Hemis under the hood. Or something.)