One word - eWWWWWWWWW

no way , I am paying that much for a crappy OS. I have just tested the POS OS .  OSX's Chess still rocks , and its a pure Rip-off of OSX. OMG , Aero hogs up ram like hell and they call that GUI. Take a look at OSX 10's GUI and the ease of use. They still can't get the right. Oh yeah , I can get the cool Aero effects by using Beryl on a X200 [it even works on a Radeon 9200].
There is nothing big deal about Vista . AFAIK , i am pretty happy running OSX on my Dell aka Hack. Seriously , OSX makes use of SSE3 and even VMX [on Core 2 Duo , Core Duo , Pentium D 9xx series]...I dont see Vista making use of that *yet*....We might never know...Oh yeah , lets wait for SP2 Vista .....Then only I'l use Vista.
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I would say Linus Torvalds .....

Anyway all of this obvious and pent-up animosity towards the Windows platform begs the question:

Who would you rather sleep with, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates - and why?

Males among us, please answer the same question.

For me, it would have to be Steve Jobs. We'd probably finish having sex then he'd be like "just one more thing" and whip out some beautiful miniature dildo with clean lines and generally flawless industrial-design sensibilities and proceed to shove it up my bum.

For those of you who have never seen a Steve Jobs keynote speech, that will simply seem to you like the nonsensical and latently homosexual ramblings of someone with the gay. I assure you, it's not. Well, not latent, anyway.

Bought home premium and ultimate today OEM version @ RM3xx and RM6xx respectively from Viewnet.

600+ for ultimate OEM??? not bad...will try and drop by LYP tonight...hope to get my hands on it too...

care to post some screenies on the OEM package...

Yeah, my SB5.1 won't work. Minimum is SB Audigy Value...and i suspect a lot more hardware won't work either.

Why don't u just buy the evaluation version and test it out before decide to buy or not.

In case u don't know, you can install VISTA WITHOUT the CD-Key (during install time) and it'll allow u 30 days access...more than enuff to test.

btw, IMO, the difference between ULTIMATE and Home Premium is pretty negligible. Unless you want to connect to a domain or something, Home Premium is just fine.

Other significant feature included in ULTIMATE:
(1) Bit locker - encrypt ur HDD....do u really need this?? Unless u r storing Goverment OSA like those toll agreement...why bother??
(2) Complete PC Backup - ala Acronis true Image or Norton Ghost. Probably a very basic and crummy imaging solution with limited function.(i read their backup system dun even have compression!!!). Just get a copy of Acronis 10 and you'll probably be much better off.

In otherwords,  i think ULTIMATE is an absolute waste of money for the average home user with crappy software thrown in to justifiy the extra price.

Is MS nuts? So many versions... Why cant they just have a Home and Business version instead? Standardize pricing and spend less on differentiating their products with different feature sets etc.

Your 2GB car? o_O What's the brand of your USB drive?

It works with my 1GB Kingston Data Traveler, whether or not it helps increase performance is another story completely

How major are we talking about? Say I change ram, hdd regularly, no problem right?

I bring TAR College student ID and get rebate 20%.
But make sure you ask first because not every stall give this promotion.

well they have a certain indexing number, if ur changes to ur hardware is above the minimum score, they should allow new installation, but if it's below, say tata to your oem vista

Is it? Did the price decrease each month? How much is all those edition of vista cost when it first launch last month?

i have 2GB ram now, and the most minimum I ever seen is 40+ % utilization, just after startup, it alrdy consumed more than 40% of memory.

My explorer.exe and task manager crashes randomly from time to time...does anyone else have this problem?