I have tried the great Win 7. Yes it is nice eye candy. Desktop and all. But you know it did not impress me. I was expecting it to boot faster than my Vista. Maybe a bit faster. But not enough to say wow!. I have been running Vista for about a year now and had no problems with. Maybe minor, but nothing horrific. I think Win 7 is just a tear down of vista. With a few improvements. If you have used Kubuntu (Linux). It has some influence in Windows 7. Maybe 2 little things. But any way I am happy with Vista thus far. And it runs quite fast for me. Her is what I am running Vista on:
2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q9400
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5KPL-CM
Serial Number: MS1C94BJ0U01992
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0606 03/11/2009
Drives Memory Modules c,d
500.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
425.43 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30 ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
ST3500418AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9VM01P5P, rev CC34, SMART Status: Healthy 3072 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM A1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM B1' has 2048 MB
Video card is a XFX Gforce 9800GT 512 MB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0
Runs well
. If you can afford a fast machine close to this or better. It rolls quite well. If you have an older machine dual core you will see a difference. Slow enough to make you say WOW! Let me hear from you and your experiences with different machines.
Redd
P.S. Windows loves RAM. More the better.