[Salamander]

Try running huge Photoshop files on this hog OS.
2Gs of RAM ain’t squat.

I have to do my really complex stuff on an old Dell desktop with 4Gs if I want to get anywhere without crashing, big time.

Hubby [insanely] upgraded his Dell to Vista and has no problems at all.
Of course, he’s just surfing eBay, biker tech sites and answering business emails.

*I’m* the one who has to fight Vista to the death just to keep our website running.

Right now, I’m barely able to type because I’m transferring all of my MP3s to the aforementioned desktop to redo my iPods.
I don’t *dare* try to manage a 5000 song iTune folder on this bug-infested machine.

I WILL kill Vista soon.....no matter what I have to do to accomplish it.

[not to mention the unavoidable infestation of “IE 7”. if I *wanted* “tabbed browsing”, I’d use Firefox]

[DB]

I have a Dell 690 work station with dual - dual core 3GHz Xeon processors, 4 GB of RAM and two 250GB SATA drives with Raid 0 to double the throughput. It has Vista Ultimate on it. My primary use for it is heavy duty engineering programs. I’ve been using it since late April of last year. While I’ve had serious compatibility issues with older software (mostly engineering tools) I haven’t had many stability issues. In that time I’ve probably crashed the OS a couple of times. Most of the compatibility issues involved the mouse and installation. Programs written in Visual Basic 4 and 6 also have serious problems. I use VMWare Workstation to run a virtual Windows 2000 machine within Vista to run my old software that wouldn’t run on Vista. I don’t use those older programs that often but I have to from time to time.