I have downloaded, burned to DVD and installed the RC1 and RC2 Vista releases. It's slick and functional but I really don't need it. Not for $200 and not even for 50$. XP is good enough. I tested RC2 on a machine with 512mb and an ATI 9250 video card that has 256mb. I could not get the AeroGlass effect. There seems to be search indexing (resource eater!) going on because searches are much quicker than with XP. That is a plus
LOL With Vista I opted to the classic windows look and now it looks more familiar. Like Windows 98 plus much less resources are hogged up by visuals (eye candy). Oh well, back to the future!
Never thought of that--guess I'll have to give it a whirl...