Hi all vista users, We are at the beginning stage of discussion to see if Vista is something we are upgrading to. When I mean upgrade, I mean a whole new machine and not just the OS upgrade. So far, all we heard are the negative things about Vista: slow, extra features that needs more memory, crashes, non-capability with hardware and so on. What are the positive things beside what microsoft says? There must be something positive, right? What do you Vista users think? Is it worth it. I'm fine with XP but due to our third-party it may have to be a "have to" thing. Thanks an advance for your comments.

DirectX 10. If you are fine with XP and everything is working with XP then there really isn't a need to upgrade to Vista. It's like the old saying goes "If it works then don't fix it."

I totally agreed with you but it's not my place to make the upgrade decision. The specs microsoft shows seems to be awfully low. Should everything they list for specs double?

Yeah. you should at least run vista at 1gb, 2gb would be optimal. Processors it gets sort of tricky, because MS bases it on the old ghz platform. Meaning if it says 1ghz for best proframnce and you double it and go 2ghz well that's where the gray area is there are dual cores out there like the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or Core 2 Duo E6300 that run at 1.8ghz but will smoke any Pentuim 4 running at 2ghz and hell even at 3ghz for that matter with ease. As for graphics cards at least get one with DirctX 10. I mean anyone building a pc from the ground up should be looking towards direct X 10 gpu's instead of Direct X 9 gpus unless you get a hell of a deal on a nice Direct X 9 gpu. Get at least a 450 watt psu that has at least a 20amp rating on a single 12v ATX 1.0 psu or a 16amp rating on a dual 12v rail on a ATX 2.0 psu.