so what do u guys think of vista?

Well it is a lot better compared with when XP came out. But yes i would Recomend it.

Just a Resource hog

It's ok and it will be better after SP1 releasedayaccus007

SP1 is mostly a patch roll-up

Well i don't know about you guys but I'm loving it. I Just upgraded to a casual gaming PC and i thought i might as well pick up vista and man.....my best decision of the year. I like how there's actually a GAME folder and how you can rate your PC.

Overall i love vista...damn it runs so fast on this PC and i don't even know why.....ram maybe?

Seems fine in a navigational sense as in it's as easy to use in a point-and-click way as XP is, I heard it has issues with running some of the high-end PC games though - graphics card drivers for example.

What I found a bit pants was that the adverts made it look like it had that 3D cube windowed-application viewer, which I figured was the reason for the memory-hogging and slowness reports, but when I tried it never had that feature - and apparently it's Ubuntu Linux that has the rotatable cube! (it's like a cube shape with, say for example, 6 different webpages on each face and you can spin it around to choose what window you want to view.)

I'd say you def. need a pretty fast dual-core CPU and at least 2GB decent RAM to run it, plus a decent graphics card too as was mentioned here. Especially if you don't streamline your OS and will be running a pre-installed version. All the moreso for a laptop since the hard disks are slower.

I recently upgraded from vista to xp after trying it for a month.

And no you didnt read that wrong.

What exactly can you do on Vista that you can't do on XP anyway? Apart from run Direct10X, which is only needed in a few games of usually only the FPS kind. And if you're running fast graphic-intensive games like that on a laptop they're going to be too slow anyway.

Best bet - get XP Pro and a Linux OS, say like SUSE, on a dual boot.

I've had it for about 10 months now, and I prefer it to XP. The only issue I have with it is program compatibility, though most compatibility problems I've had relate to me using the 64 bit version, not vista in general. Regarding the "memory hog" claims people frequently make about Vista, true it does use up more memory than XP. One of the biggest culprits is Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe), a process which is used to operate Vista's "Aero" interface. If you switch to a more basic interface or the classic one, you can free up quite a bit of memory. It should also be taken into account that Vista will use the memory to cache things so it can operate faster.EJ902

mines is takin up 53,234k of memory.

One of the main benefits of Vista is DX10, and despite what some people say, DX10 effects can add a tremendous amount of to a game. Like World in Conflict for example, the smoke/cloud effects on the horizon look stellar with DX10. Other games (Crysis...ahem), you really can't even turn on DX10 and play unless you've got that ridiculous 3-way-SLI with 8800 Ultra's.

On a laptop...I would hesitate to get Vista for the DX10 aspect. The video card in a laptop is probably not going to be enough to even take advantage of DX10. Unless you're going super high-end. But having said that, even before DX10-ready games were available I chose Vista over XP (after switching back and forth a few times) just because it's much more pleasant to use. Yes, it uses more resources than XP but if you have 2gb RAM you'll be fine.