Ever since I rebuilt my laptop a month or so ago, I have been a bit ticked about how slow the graphics were painting ... in fact it felt like I was always on a remote desktop or something.  Today I decided to do some playing around with my settings and found the Hardware Acceleration setting .... man does that make a difference!

I figure this thing has a 3.4Ghtz chip and 2G ram and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card - why not turn everthing on?  .... So far I'm REALLY happy with how much of a difference it is making, not sure why I didn't find this earlier...

So if any of you out there have a good laptop with a good graphics card in it but everythings seems to be painting slow ... check and make sure you have the settings on to use it.  Now I need to add this to my installation document so I don't go through this again the next time I rebuild this laptop...