webdoctor - 1:15 pm on Dec 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

The computer is old and frankly slow, but vista does run faster than XP did.

This point was tossed back and forth during the beta - with all due respect I find it very hard to believe.

Did you do an upgrade or a clean install of Vista? Defragging or reinstalling the XP installation could well have speeded it up just as much.

During the beta I have seen no evidence to convince me that Vista typically runs faster than XP on mediocre hardware, but I've seen plenty of evidence that Vista can run significantly slower than XP on the same hardware :-(