having read most of the messages i understand vista has its difficulties , Anything new these days in technology is pushed and deadlines cause pressure for release dates etc. But 5 years in the making is a long time , However im not sure what problems vista users are having> for me the perks of it are great Ideally dealing and working in photography the ability to see photos on a large scale in folders is a huge bonus. I have not experience anything out of the ordinary with vista. However i do not alowe this machine to go online It a work machine and any updates i need> usually software updates everything is fine. never updated wondows on vista yet untill they are ready and approved.
Everything runs on the machine perfect and with Adobe open , logic music program and various text and grapics program the machine handels beautfully , usually render a 1 hour movie eidt in under an hour whith all applications running. As for games i have around 100 titles including the current top 20 which all run a dream ( Except for broken sword 4 ) but there is shader trouble with the game and trouble handing multi processor machines. I think its how yoru machine is built that makes the vista a difference, If your mother board and everything in the pc is build according to vista then it should work nicely. direct x 10 is only a vista quality and so good for gaming and graphics which i do. the machine boots up and shits down around 30 seconds. they talk bad about dell machines but for some reason my dell works fine too. I think luck sometimes comes in to it but also what you install on yoru machine make a lot fo difference, and if its connected to the net the amount of junk it downloads without you knowing is crazy all can make a difference how the system runs