@ursa: Gigabit won't hurt you, but it is unlikely that you really need it.

@Prairie Moon: Bootvis and Soluto do different things. Bootvis re-arranges your startup programs on your disk so that they load quickly in the order that they come up. Soluto changes that order, and makes some programs wait until the system is idle before they come up, so they no longer get started at boot time. …

@hardwareguy: I make Prime Rib on my grill on Christmas Day every year.