I had been reading in my PC World mags, that Vista really slows down your machine ... the other day, a friend bought a brand-new laptop (with pretty good specs) ... I checked it for him, wow :wtf: ... what a turd ... that's what it is, "constipated" lol ... I'd recommend him to 'upgrade' to XP, but Microsoft will be discontinuing support for XP in the future ... my next computer project, I will probably switch to Linux :thumbsup: