I've just spent some time playing about with IE8 Beta 1 and have a few comments on it

1) The 'beta' tag is over-rated - it's nowhere near ready for a 'beta' tag.

2) It's very resource hungry - it was eating my CPU (AMD 64bit 2.2ghz) like crazy

3) (a follow on from point number 1) It crashes - a lot. 2 or 3 crashes per page load was the norm during my tests.

I know that it's beta software and supposed to be used by developers/designers to checkout the new rendering engine but it was completely un-usable for me. I've rolled back to IE7 now mainly so I can use the internet again

And now on to the screenshots...

Get used to this screen:http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/citalan/crash.png

And this one: http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...anager_cpu.png

TalkPHP Homepage: http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...p_homepage.png

TalkPHP Forum List: http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4..._forumlist.png

TalkPHP Thread List (Top): http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...adlist_top.png

TalkPHP Thread List (Bottom): http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...ist_bottom.png

TalkPHP View Thread (Top): http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...thread_top.png

TalkPHP View Thread (Bottom): http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...ead_bottom.png

I would have taken some more but was ready to scream at this point

Anyone else tested IE8 yet and what where your experiances like? Hopefully not as bad as mine

Alan