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But Vista IS NOT THAT BAD if you have a decent comp. Like of course it’s going to be slow if you have a crappy computer get over it.

Not everyone can have, or wants, the latest, fastest, most powerful PC on the market. My PC is 3 years old, running XP Pro excellently and considered a dinosaur (939 socket AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 4200+ - two 2.2GHz processors, 2 gig of PC3200 DDR RAM in four 512meg DIMMs).
Even my GPU is considered old - 256meg DDR3 PCIe 8600GT, but it runs TDU very well, and that's all I care about.

I want to see the shakeout of the 45 nm quad-processors and nvidia quad-SLI price drops before I invest in a new machine.

BTW, they're dropping Vista into PC's that shouldn't be running it. My wife bought a PC for herself without me there to stop her (she said she couldn't resist the price, and she needed a new PC!); it's a Compaq 1.6GHz dual-core with 1 gig (two DIMMs), running Vista HP! There are only two RAM slots, and the max the BIOS can handle is two gig! I replaced her RAM with 2 gig, and it still has trouble running all of her SIMS 2 add-on packs (takes forever to load!).
I run Spybot, Ccleaner and Defraggler on it religiously, but it's still slower than drying paint.

Not everyone can have, or wants, the latest, fastest, most powerful PC on the market. My PC is 3 years old, running XP Pro excellently and considered a dinosaur (939 socket AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 4200+ - two 2.2GHz processors, 2 gig of PC3200 DDR RAM in four 512meg DIMMs). Even my GPU is considered old - 256meg DDR3 PCIe 8600GT, but it runs TDU very well, and that's all I care about. I want to see the shakeout of the 45 nm quad-processors and nvidia quad-SLI price drops before I invest in a new machine. BTW, they're dropping Vista into PC's that shouldn't be running it. My wife bought a PC for herself without me there to stop her (she said she couldn't resist the price, and she needed a new PC!); it's a Compaq 1.6GHz dual-core with 1 gig (two DIMMs), running Vista HP! There are only two RAM slots, and the max the BIOS can handle is two gig! I replaced her RAM with 2 gig, and it still has trouble running all of her SIMS 2 add-on packs (takes forever to load!).

I run Spybot, Ccleaner and Defraggler on it religiously, but it's still slower than drying paint.

(snore)Couldn't you have given a geek alert before you started in with this? :)

I’m writing this on a $700 laptop which is pretty cheap I think, and I can run Photoshop and Dreamweaver and listen online and all that stuff on Vista without any problem so...I agree with those that say the anti-Vista hysteria is a bit exaggerated.