I don't know what screen you're using, but on my 27-inch desktop monitor there's certainly a little more than a "slight difference". The text is now twice as crispy, and most of the (very distracting) image artifacts on the smaller version is gone.
From my part thanks a lot for this improved version! There's absolutely no reason for doing any less quality than this for the purpose of using it in any post-1995 PC, and anyone who prefer smaller sizes can easily compress it online if they so wish (while the other way around is not possible for obvious reasons).