Windows Vista is slooooowww

Homey

That's an older build... beta 2 is out now.

One problem you may be having is that the beta ships with a lot of services turned *on* by default... and this consumes an awful lot of RAM. The default install of beta 2 consumed more than 600MB! of RAM before I turned off unneeded services such as Tablet Handwriting recognition (i wasn't on a tablet)... got the RAM usage down almost by half.

If you 'only' had 512MB, then you'd be paging to disk a lot - which *would* be very slow.

If you don't have a vista ready video card - the interface is not going to look nearly as good as Aero - which looks and works absolutely fantastic. I'm loving it - very hard to go back to XP now at work lol.

Vista has tons of improvements that you won't find at first glance. The advanced firewall settings are *awesome*. I was playing around with it and decided to block *all* outgoing connections - and then my network wouldn't work for some reason - and I later found out I was blocking even low level DHCP requests! It really worked well. Had to reenable defaults... I'll play around with it more but security seems drastically improved. I think the firewall alone is worth the price of upgrade.

DX 10 is going to be person, as well as the all new networking stack (much faster), all new audio stack (lower latencies, per app. volume, etc.), and just a ton more stuff to list.

After listening to all the pundits, I was really expecting Vista to be a letdown. Then I finally installed Beta 2 (hadn't tried the earlier betas), and I was really WOWed.

Haven't found any major problems *yet*, but I have found a few very minor rendering problems in Office 2007 (also beta 2).

IE7 has a lot of improved security features - I would love for someone to list down some malware spyware sites that I could direct IE7 to test its security - but so far nobody has been able to give me any sites that can infect Vista through IE7. Lots of claims, but no proof - yet.

Tons of new stuff. I love chess breastans myself :)

I was about to upgrade my mac mini to the new intel mac - but after seeing vista, I am thinking of just getting Vista capable machines now... less expensive than mac hardware anyways...

Media Player 11 rox also.

Ok I'm going to end this... I could go on with all the neat cool stuff - perhaps I need to start a blog heh.