Quote Originally Posted by Cody900
That it isn't polished, Vista itself is still in beta.

I'm pretty confident that everyone who has problems or sufferes proformance issues with Vista are because their computers couldn't handle it. There's a program which tests your computer and rates it as to how well it can run Vista.

1 - 3 Means they can only run a very basic version of Vista, and they can't have the new Windows Aero theme. 3 - 4 Means they can run most features of Vista but some will be limited. 4 - 5 Means they can run every option on the highest settings without proformance issues.

I scored 4.2/5.

I reakon everyone who had problems would of been quite a bit under 4. As Vista usues SO much more RAM and CPU in everything it does that would be the main candidate for Vista going slowly.
Cody, Vista has been out for awhile now. You won't get any disagreement from me that it's not polished though.

As for your performance because of requirements argument, that's also not true. Wanted to give you a link but HardOCP's site seems to be having problems. When it's back up or if you feel like it, check out their video card reviews, most of the newer ones for the higher end ATI and newer Nvidia cards use both XP and Vista to benchmark; Vista is consistently slower. The reason your statement is incorrect is that these folks are using literally the best hardware you can get, and doing best playable and apples to apples comparisons and Vista is losing out pretty squarely. HardOCP is pretty fair about their testing as well so it's hard to claim any kind of bias.

Most probable is that it's simply Vista not being well optimized at this point in time, and Nvidia/ATI's drivers not mature yet. Both should improve down the road, but until then I'm sticking with XP.