you have, even if that one is perfectly compatible with Windows 8. The crispness may* have been the sharpness setting of your video card, and the lack of smoothness is exactly what I experienced when I upgraded my old computer until I went to Nvidia and installed the driver for my card. Go to your graphics card manufacturer's website and look for the latest driver they have. Get the one for Windows 8 if it's there. Otherwise, prefer getting one for Windows 7 over the one for Vista. If you don't know exactly what your graphics card is, do the following: Move your mouse the the bottom left corner of the screen to get the Start tile, right click on it, and select Device Manager. Double click on Display Adapters to show which one is installed. As long as it doesn't say something like "Generic VGA driver", then that's your graphics card. If it does mention a generic card, post back here and we'll help you figure out which card you have. A generic driver would be 100% sure to be your problem if that's what's installed. *If it's just text that's blurry, that could definitely be a ClearType issue, as yoyoDyne mentions. Does your resolution match the screen's native resolution? Using anything other than the native resolution, including one higher than native, will probably make it look blurry. This site says it's 1280 by 800, but this site says 1680x1050 was an option. Does your resolution match the screen's