basically what the topic title says. I'm about to get a very small bonus from work (I work at wal-mart) its not huge, but its enough to get a little somethign extra. I have a dx10 ready card, and I do plan on getting Vista eventually, but I'm just wondering if you guys think/know if its good now as it is. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Windows Vista is solid and stable and reliable after all the updates of more than 100 MB in size. If you have a decent CPU of about 2 GHz, a RAM of 1 to 2 GB, an HDD free space of 30 GB and your DX10 compliant graphics card, then you may proceed to have Windows Vista. Of course these are not the minimum requirements to run Vista. These are my recommendations. Please be advised. Regards SuatCINI

Vista all the way. Vista currently supports in excess of 2.1 million devices and that over 2,000 programs have received certification for the operating system. They've already released the Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Pack to testers which may be part of the latest build of Vista SP1 as a way to improve the user experience with the operating system. Get it before windows aero is old news.

Sure! Vista's a fine OS! I've run it on a variety of very different systems, from newer Pentium IIIs to Opterons, and was pleased with the performance of the OS on each system. Just make sure that once you get it, you download the two Performance and Compatibility patches that MS released a couple weeks ago. They truly do make Vista a lot more stable (the random BSoDs and weird Media Player glitches stopped as soon as I installed these two patches): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938... Super Pentium III: NOW WITH 7950GT AGP! PIII-S cpu overclocked to 1.66GHz--As fast as a 2.5GHz P4! 2GB of PC2700 memory QDI Advance 12T board Audigy 2 Vista Home Premium

For my two cents... It all depends on your hardware. Make sure it's all Vista compatible and that you've got a fast enough CPU. Vista will consume more resources than Windows XP, so it'll run "slower" than XP on the same hardware. Make sure you've got a solid video card which will help relieve some of the processing power. My advice would be to wait till closer to Xmas and see if you can snag some better deals then... (I'm running/testing Vista on a new Dell box and don't have any basic problems as long as I don't use outdated external hardware or oddball software)

If XP is working fine then unless you have a real reason to get Vista then you don't need it. I'd personally wait unti Vista SP1 comes out which will be in the next few months.