Vista = DX10 = No Directsound = No EAX = No Enviroment Effect
M$ Solution 1 : Kernel Mode Driver = buggy, leading to OS crash.
M$ Solution 2 : Software Emulation.

My Vote:
No thanks. I'll stick with XP. More "real-time, real-life experience"

I wonder y M$ taken the 2nd most important value of today games....

AFAIK, nero already rolled-out VISTA-READY version. but size is 200mb. Im downloading it now.

Btw, anyone use SuperFetch aka Readyboost? How much improvement gained?

Not true. I bench my pendrive, it's 1.5ms n 1.6ms ( yes, i have two ) and still qualified for readyboost.

OK. here's my result
Kingston Data Traveller II 512mb - Readyboost Compatible
Kingston Mini Fun 2gb - ReadyBoost Compatible

I've tested running vista with maxmem=512 and 512mb readyboost thumbdrive. Booting n loading windows is ok. faster than xp. but opening mycomp, control panel or anything else, seems lag abit. n one more thing, while in windows, my vista eat up abt 280mb ram and abt 500mb pagefile. I would say, the memory management is superior than xp.

after all this, there's 1 article that prevent me fully-switching to vista. GFX temp probe. Seems like, someone, from an OS-Tweaking site burn out his 7600GS just because OHP ( over heat protection ) in current vista driver failed to kick in. His gfx waterblock melted at the copper - die contact. read here :

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/990/2