[Zack]

Right let me start off by telling a little story.

I was once a Vista basher. I hated it. At this time I ran a P4 3ghz with 1gb of ram and a Nvidia 128mb card. Obviously Vista sucked on it compared to xp.

However I now have a beefy rig (check sig for specs), and Vista is a dream to use on it.

It : A) Runs as fast as XP (on my rig), B) looks nicer, C) Less bugs than Xp (on my rig). I got usb and black screens on boot on xp :S (yes i installed my drivers right im not a noob)

Now it does however suck for Pc Gaming, (something I don't really do), but for arguments sake i tested it on both.

XP = Settings all on Max + high antialising (full speed no slowdowns)
Vista = Settings all on max + high antialising (lslowdowns galore, even with gfx settings lowered)

So basically what I am trying to get across here is that if you have a beefy enough PC and don't pc game on it Vista is great. I'd just like to say that emulators ran equal on both XP and Vista for me. Just seemed to be PC games that suffered.

I am not saying it's better or worse than XP, all I am saying is it isn't as bad as people make out. Most of the "Vista sucks" comments generally come from people with either driver issues, low spec pc's or pc gamers.