Clean install of Vista RC2. Nothing installed except nvidia drivers and vista running with all its eye candy 1 IE windows open and playing wmp11 and I'm using 408 MB. Was worried with all I read about how vista would basicly be useless if you didn't have a top end system. On my Athlon Xp 2500 oced to 2GHz with 1 gig of ram and nvidia 5600 FX 128MB. It runs pretty snappy. Not as fast as Xp but not far behind. 2 gigs of ram would make me a little bit happier. But I went from 512 to 1 gig for Xp. So why not expect the same for Vista? Overall I like vista. Except how it seems to hold my hand in everything I do. Why must there be multiple pop ups asking me if I'm sure I want to do something? 1 dialog is enough in my book. Not 2 or 3. Overall vista gets a 8/10 but so does Xp. Guess I'm hard to please Not sure when I'll buy vista. Guessing I'll grab the home premium upgrade for 159. I'll go kicking and screaming just as I did from 98 to Xp.