[cspackler]

Never buy a computer with Vista installed on it. It has been nothing but a huge headache. It has the uncanny ability of making a DSL line as slow as a dial-up system, and that’s not what we are paying for.

Oh please, I've upgraded all of my home machines with no problems at all, and the thruput on my DSL line has increased significantly due to the IP6 layer. Same line speed, but download run much faster. If you're running with 512 mb ram and expect it to fly, it ain't gonna happen though. If you put enough memory on your macine and the hardware is somewhat current, you will have very few issues.

[dan1123]

>> Oh please, I’ve upgraded all of my home machines with no problems at all, and the thruput on my DSL line has increased significantly due to the IP6 layer.

Windows XP SP1 has ipv6. I don’t think the networking has changed much since SP2.

>> If you put enough memory on your macine...

And there’s the reason for slowness. Microsoft never should have allowed Vista stickers on anything less that 2GB of RAM.