Not to mention the general bugginess typical of any windows OS pre-SP2 (although lately that could be SP1 given that MS are trying hard to break that rep), lack of driver support for the few upgraded features EG WaveRT, conflicting opinions between developers about whether to support the new GUI (meaning that you can't tweak it to be optimal because different software on the same box wants a different OS config... blah blah blah... Dude, Vista is the WinME of this decade. But obviously you're keen on it, fair enough, but can you explain what benefit you think you'll see over XP?