Perhaps it works great for old ladies and similar basic user types. Perhaps. It in no way works for any power user. No matter what the hardware. We use Intel executive and media class boards with nvidia display cards and core 2 duo and quad CPU's. And its a stinker. I work for a small software development shop, and we need performance. Vista has none. Not for compiles, and most certainly not for network transfers. A full get latest on the source locker can take 40 minutes on our biggest project as is. On Vista that stretches out to be 2 hours and ten. Thats completely unacceptable. Its not about the hardware. We're not vista haters, but we're quickly becoming XP lovers.