it may be about being more "pretty" (it depends on tastes obviously) but as
other things in this new os its a but underrated by people
making the gpu draw the things can & means a bit better stability against
display driver failures, i wont go on technical issues right now, but sure
more people than me can talk about the message "the display adapter has
stopped responding and was successfully restarted" or something alike, in xp
or turning off the desktop composition that would mean bluescreen, and sure
it was a pleasure see those messages in early days when nvidia drivers were
breaking once a day!!
as currently there is no way to turn on the destop composition without
turning on aero (i dont know any at least), i dont consider it a waste of
processor power, not that it slow your computer use, despite some tests you
may find out there, using the gpu frees the processor for other things,
still you wont get much better computer speed, but you wont lose it
either... there are some programs, almost all midly-old drawing-intensive
ones, that have some problems when redrawing due to some internal changes
(most test i've seen about aero being slow used one at least), i can name
you photoshop cs, corel 9, autocad several versions, and etcetera... newer
versions of those programs built for vista may not have those problems (or i
would fire the programmers for being too lazy, lol!!), if you dont believe
those "big" programs can have problems just do a test yourself and be
amazed, not to blame them obviously cause vista were not there at the time
of creating them
about flip3d, well yes, it is there if you want to use it, if you dont want,
you dont need to call it, obviously if you dont use it, it wont use
processor or slow you in any way
