Ive read so many articles bashing vista that i frankly was afraid when i got my new computer. An acer Aspire AMD quad Core 2.2 GHZ with 4 GB of ram and a cool video card, i thought vista will be gone from my computer within an hour and ill have XP x64 running. Boy was I wrong, not only is vista a really good successor to XP , it runs smooth as butter on my computer. Vista with the right hardware is a really good operating system. However , there is ubuntu :P