Posted 06/19/2008 at 03:09:02pm

I've been running vista since its release on beta. Initially it sucked and even the first retail release was buggy. Driver support sucked, it just wasn't well supported for a good 4 months. Now its great. I didn't hate vista initially, I just knew it was new to the industry and people were still making drivers for it. For those of you complaining that vista sucks, then you must have a crappy machine to run it on. Its no secret vista is a resource hog and is a bit bloated with useless crap. If you don't want all the useless features then get Vista Business edition in either of its platforms (32bit or 64 bit). If you have anything less than a 6800GT video card then don't bother even posting a reply! lol. With todays technology you should be running vista with plenty of resources to spare, especially if you are a gamer! If you don't upgrade often then stick with what works best for a older machine.. XP is your platform! I don't recommend vista with anything less than 4 gig of ram and a C2D CPU or AMD socket 939 class processor. I'm running todays latest and greatest which is a C2D E6850 with 4 gig corsair DDR2 800, EVGA 780I motherboard and EVGA 8800GTS (G92) video and have no problems what so ever. I have Vista on a AMD skt 939 4800+ x2 with 4 gig of ram system and it runs flawless. Vista 64bit ultimate edition is flawless with the exception of some lingering driver issues. Wish 32bit was a good as its 64bit counter part. Its smooth as butter and in most cases & its far better then XP. As reviewed by Maximum PC some vista features are annoying like defrag and security pop-ups. XP in its first couple years was annoying too and this is no different.