I use Vista Ultimate and got my retail box 2 days ago. Yes hardware support is pretty limited like Canoscan scanner, some HP printers.. etc..

All core drivers like mainboard chipset, graphics card, processor.. its all up to date with even beta drivers to run about (for graphics card only)

Visually, Vista is pretty, while the wider software support now... Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Flash and Dreamweaver 8, Maya 8.5, City of Heroes / Villains.. and more to be listed..

Very secure? So far, yes but its very annoying with the UAC (User Access Control). Just wait till Sp1 like others said.

Not much difference but in gaming, you will see huge difference as well as doing video editing in Vista. When i first upgrade to Vista Ultimate OEM, i have 1GB and i run 5 applications : photoshop, illustrator, flash, dreaamweaver and firefox. There is no slow down on my AMD 3000+ 1GB with 7600GT.

Once i upgraded to 2.5 GB, only difference i get to feel is the speed of application loading and the less usage of virtual memory.


Addition note : windows key + tab = 3d flip task selection. Just use it like how you do it with alt + tab

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Added on April 11, 2007, 3:42 pmcorrection, nVidia have all stable and beta drivers for Vista. You have to scroll sightly more downwards to see Vista 32 and 64 selection. For beta driver, click on the link top most of the drivers page.

This post has been edited by onscreen: Apr 11 2007, 03:42 PM