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Microsoft does bluff about its products though, they claim that Vista can run on an 800 MHz CPU and a 32 MB video memory (now that is just pure bs!). On the other hand, XP SP2 is a really effecient OS. My third PC (which I rarely ue for obvious reasons) is a Dell Optiplex GX1, a P3 and not just any, the very first model with 550 MHz CPU and a 128 MB RAM and no built-in or external video memory. Other than taking a minute or so longer at start-up and MS Office being pretty sluggish, there isn't any instability or crashes (though I totally agree that this "isn't normal, its paging the already old HDD to death") But this is just to show that all Microsoft OS start off with a lot of criticism and most bugs are corrected in SP2 and until then, it isn't advisable to have it if you are even half-satisfied with XP.
Furthermore, rumor's gone around that Microsoft is abandoning Vista because XP SP3 came out after Vista's release, though probably not true, its going to be intersting how Microsoft manages to get of this dime novel because, at the moment, even XP SP3 is causing problems with Internet connections for example and this is exactly why Microsoft isn't forcing its SP2 users to upgrade to SP3.
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