My system is by no means fast, and vista ran perfect on it. Heck, even aero worked with no flaws on ym crappy ATI Radeon X300. I'm sick of people saying "I hate vista" when they've never used it, or read a bunch of biased reviews on it. Yeah, a lot of PC magazines don't like it because it's new, that's typical. They claim it has "DRM restrictions" and stuff. Well, so does a lot of other stuff and they aren't complaining then. I say give vista a shot, whatever you've heard about it is probably false or biased information anyways.