Same thing happened to me as with emceepj. First thing I noticed was my monitor (Flat Screen Studio Display) didn't look the same. Duller and not as sharp. Check out some preferences and noticed that it defaulted to Thousands of colours after updating. Weird. If you haven't check you may want to. So far I haven't really noticed much difference.
I also just updated to an 80 MB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache HD last week. Smooth transition from my 40/5400/2MB using Carbon Copy Cloner but, again, was disappointed by not really noticing any speed improvements. Guess I'll have to start saving for the G5 and hope that Panther speeds things up on the QS in the meantime.
One last note about Safari. Like ehmax I still have to keep IE around for a few things like internet banking with CIBC (it works technically but I get an annoying plug in error on every page) and, unfortunately, ehmac.ca. Believe it or not, I have Bullets (Option-8) in my Username that aren't recognized using Safari so I can't log in. I could always create a new user on ehMac but that would be my third and I've grown partial to what I've got.
I'm done.
Macman.
[ September 23, 2003, 02:47 AM: Message edited by: •MACMAN• ]