They are bringing out a special version of win7 for netbooks just like your samsung, it might be worth trying it out to see if it's better or not.

But I believe Pentax is a smaller company then Canon and Nikon are at the moment so Canon & Nikon need to sell more to play it even.
If pentax would invest more in marketing then you also need more people for that meaning more money is needed and more they need to sell so then the question come how effective is marketing against the big boys?

Not really though, only the 64bit version can have more then 4gb useful ram. I had XP 64bit which also supported more then 4GB ram.

Thank you Ray, seems I don't need to update then.

yes you can, I must say that it is far less annoying in win7 then in vista.

It's the UAC (User Account Control) that keeps pop-in up.
Here is an explanation how to turn it off link
I would suggest using option 1 or 4 and not use regedit if you don't know what you're doing.

Some of the new standards, GPGPU is one of them I believe which isn't found in earlier versions.
It lets the graphics processor do the calculation it's good at meaning your overall PC performance is much better. You will see a lot of speed improvements with Photoshop for example with this.

Then of course security and I must say stability is also good, I used XP 64 Before this one and his core was the server version of windows and that one was super stable also but Win7 seems just as good.

ps. could someone please do this.
Press start, then in search type winver and then click on the program winver.
it shows your windows version and I want to know if I need to upgrade my version or if the GA (General availability) version is the same as the RTM (release to manufacturing).
It's the build version I need, thank you very much.

Mhuni is IPS better then PVA for photos?
I know that Eizo use PVA and that Samsung and Sony does as well, so I was looking for one of them.

Here it is link

Oggy diffraction is I believe what I meant, not sure though.
I'm quite sure the angles part has something to do with it.

Well yes all lenses should be sharp but relative to their focal length.
Since the further away you move from 58mm the more you need to distort the image to fit on your sensor so to say.
What I'm trying to say is that it's easier to make a perfect 1x magnification then a 10x magnification, I know magnification isn't the right worth but it explains better what I'm trying to say here.

Samsung (HP use samsung panels) is probably the better of the cheapest ones, if you want to buy new.
link link the HP seems to be the better one though