What surprises me about this new Win 7 machine is that it has crashed quite a few times. I can’t recall my old XP machine ever crashing.
That is a surprise. The only Win7 machines I’ve encountered with crash problems were the Atom-Powered netbooks, which also don’t play nice with XP. My biggest professional mistake in recent years was recommending an Atom machine to a Mac user who needed a cheap Windows machine to run software for a class she was taking.