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Vista is better, though I'm still not saying it is a great operating system by any means. When it came out its cost, system requirements, overhead, and lack of product support made the system a complete disaster. A lot of these problems have been addressed with hotfixes and service packs. More products are being supported now, even if only by way of work-around fixes and the cost has dropped somewhat. A big let down to all who awaited the release on Vista was the announcement that such features like DirectX 10 and the new file system may only be available in the ultimate package. A bigger let down still, is the increased need to meet system requirement demands in order to deal with the high overhead. Yes Vista is fast when you first buy the system and if you have the latest technology and are doing nothing more than running work application ... but this is not because it is better than XP, but because the CPU/chipset architecture has been optimized for use with multiple threads. Not to mention that a lot of the software that has come out recently has been optimized for Vista as well. Vista, however, is no XP and never will be. For those of you who honestly believe that Vista is faster and better than XP you need to do some reading. I have been using both XP and Vista for many years now and if my HP hardware supported XP without major modifications I would get rid of the Vista operating system that came pre-installed as I have had nothing but problems with it. For those of you who still think Vista is faster lets compare my two systems: Vista Business, Athlon Dual Core 2GHz, 2GB RAM 667MHz, NVIDIA 7150M/630M (Dedicated: 128MB RAM/Shared: 800MB RAM) - Graphics keep crashing, hangs often, not nearly as fast as I'd like seeing as most of the resource intensive features have been disabled, and almost no programs running in the background. XP Pro, Atom 1.6GHz, 1.5GB RAM 667MHz, Intel 945GSE (Dedicated: 8MB RAM/Shared: 64MB RAM) - No crashes, no hanging, many programs running in the background, and runs equal/faster than Vista on a single core processor with less RAM and a graphics card with far less RAM. My last comment is to agree with the above statements that said that you shouldn't need to upgrade your computer JUST to run the OS! A computer sould only need to be upgraded to run games or graphical/processor intensive tasks (video encoding, Auto CAD, etc.) ------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no promise of safety with these second hand wings..." - The Melting Point Of Wax by Thrice

As an atheist I find this very interesting. I may have to start believing in something soon.