Even though I've been using Vista for over a year and a half in different scenarios, like my laptop has Vista on it, and the computer connected to the HD TV has Vista on it for the Media Center capabilities, I've just upgraded my main Test box to Vista this weekend. There is no comparison, to using it everday and getting to learn it better. It's really growing on me now. I too, love the gadgets, and no they don't use up all your resources if you bought a decent PC, lol. If you are a penny pincher, you might want to stay with XP.

 

One interesting and cool thing is; I was able to connect the other two Vista computers to the main Media Center PC and play the music and slideshows very easily. I don't know how it does it, but the Media Center on the other two pc's has the Playlists from the main one. I was playing the same playlist and slideshow one being a wireless connection at the same time just for a test. Not bad, I'm impressed.

 

So far all my older software on XP is running fine on Vista.

 

And at least I can get better video drivers for the Vista OS, when while testing Windows XP 64 bit, the drivers just weren't developed for a 3 yr old video card.

 

I'm liking Vista more and more,