I hate windows Vista full stop slow recource hungry hound, maybe the next windows they will fix the problems before it is released but I wont hold my breath, I pefer xp and I have both home & xp 64 and vista getting mac soon so see how that fairs
Vista isn't a resource hog, yes you do need 1Gb atleast to run it properly, but c'mon, that's tech evolution, otherwise we'd still be with crappy Win95. As for Vista using all your memory, that's Superfetch doing it's job.
Vista doesn't have any problems, and runs fine. It's doing actually much much better then XP did in the first couple of years. Security wise and performance wise. Just because you need a faster PC doesn't mean that Vista sucks. That's just the way it goes, and I'm happy otherwise we'd still be in OS/2 lol.
But I understand where you are coming from, my fathers company is switching to Vista next month, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world. I have no idea why, because they all need new laptops, and Vista doesn't give much over XP let's face it. But it runs fine providing you have the hardware.
3rd parties not having proper 64bit drivers is a different story, and that's entirely not Vista's fault.
Vista ran great on my X2 3800+, with 2Gb of Ram, even with 1Gb Ram, and now on my Quad Core 3.6Ghz and 4Gb Ram it runs great too.
Why not turn Aero off, and a couple of other bells and whistles, and it's more responsive then XP. I have no problem with anything, and I'm a power user, and consider myself a gamer with the very latest hardware. But it runs fine on older hardware aswell.