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i have been looking forward to getting vista for so long thinking it would be a good pc performance increase and easier to use, only to find out it has so many driver problems, poor performance and
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i've actually found it runs more stable than mce, along with boot up and shutdown times are quicker than windows mce, but comparable to windows prof.
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it has been stable with all my machines (6) and only flakey on a really old mobo.
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other thoughts: best performance upgrade you can make if you're running vista is to dump it for xp.
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very stable os, and with xp support extended until 2014, it's my first choice for an os.
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if you want to play pc games , it is either xp or vista, and vista is still too new for relilable gaming, especially with older games.
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no problems, use it to play games and run any other programs i wouldn't be able to on my mac.
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it's a solid os, only limitation i don't care for is the ram mem, but i don't need more than 2 gigs at the moment anyways, as do most people don't, just gamers maybe.
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longer than you want to read about here, but if you are considering a new build, stay with xp for now even though it is limited to dx9, you can get a dx10 gpu and hack game files to run dx9 in dx10.
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works great for a internet/family type pc .cons: some features missing when buying oem.other thoughts: it works.
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