exactly , they should be trying to get it to use as little resources as posible ,not like 1gb of ram just for an os and 15gb hard drive , and you need a pretty decent processor , either a high end single core or a dual core , you can run xp on anything all the way back down to pentinum 3 400mhz but vista needs like2.5ghz or above to run well it needs more than just streamlining