People Irritate me with their Useless Vista sucks rants. There is nothing wrong with the actual operating system that makes it run slow. If you have under 1.5 gb of ram its going to run regular but not fast. If you have 2+ gb of ram it will run great. Its a highly graphical system. The only people that hate it are computer illiterate people who can't read the box that has minimum or "recommended requirements". If your computer doesn't meet them then don't get it. The only reason to really get it is on a new BUILT for vista computer. Memory is cheap anyway, you can get 4 gb of ram on newegg for around $120 dollars. 4 gb of ram will make vista run fine seeing that you have a good processor and a decent video card. For the video card you need a minimum of 128 mb just for vista. Yes it may hog it, but vista was built for computers with good hardware. To meet the reccomended requirements may not be enough. But the reccomended is not always whats best. Hate the computer not the operating system. Hawk