Vista is great. 

Vista is the most advanced operating system from microsoft, it runs multi unit sessions better than any other opperating system so far released.  Vista is great aestheticly.  It's a very pretty little thing.  Ohhh coochy coo! 

Here is proof that at least three people like Vista:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_rc1_best.asp

http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/09/09/ten-things-i-love-about-windows-vista/

Upgrading the PC

I personally love playing computer games.  The idea of a Vista capable computer, that also has a great video card for more advanced games, is quite exciting. 

I use Office 2007 for school work, I may be going into collage at the tail end of this year, so the new Office programs will be very important.

Internet browsing has become such a large constellation of applets, auto downloaded programs, auto starting "jibber-jabber", that it could be the biggest problem on any PC.  There are four differant people going to different sites, and downloading lots of different add-ons and so forth, but although ment for one user, these downloads are often applied to all of the other user's pages.

The new windows Vista is a great media centre, for burning all of our music files to the computer (unfotunately we ripped everything into the computer using WMA lossless, which still requires a translation.  The new windows media allows you to import files directly in, resulting in a much cleaner outcome).  As a media centre the TV tuner cards still work.  But they suck so much you usually can't stand to watch for long.  If you want to use you monitor for TV, just get a dual input monitor and a cable box then switch bewen PC and cble box on the monitor.  Don't bother with TV tuner cards.

 Vista is not, however entirly compatable with many of the hardware that we currently have on our computer, for example: the ASUS mother board is not supported, few updates available

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

does not recognize kenwood cd rom drive. 

http://www.onlineinc.com/it/feb00/news21.htm

ok, so it's a drive released in 2000.  But the thing works great, even after all these years and was one of the quietest drives ever made.  It's replacement, the Plextor SA716 DVD-RW cost three times as much, had a one year warrantee.  It died just a couple of weeks ago.  This drive is already obsolete looks like the current model is the PX-810SA.

http://www.plextor.com/english/products/px-810sa.html

We have our doubts about the AMD Athlon  X2 CPU as well.  many web sites semm to load right away on the first click then take three to five minutes when you click to their next page.  This seems alot like what I'd expect if the OS expected the chip to know about all cached commands. I don't think the X2 can share all cache between it's two cores. 

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485_13041,00.html

Do not despair, there is hardware that is capable of runing Vista.  Below is a link to a list of varrious computer parts that are fully compatible:

http://forums.winkeyfinder.com/every-thing-about-vista/1531-compatible-hardwares-vista.html

And here is a longer list:

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/List-Vista-Supported-Hardware-Software-ftopict232602.html

This is the officail microsoft page on Vista capable aplications:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933305

here's the offical Microsoft page on hardware:

http://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/