ByronM - 3:35 am on Jul 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

That is absolute baloney. I don't really think that Core 2 2.8 mhz is all that antiquated.

2.8ghz? I have one of those (not a dell) and it screams with Vista. Infact i run at 1920x1080 and use it to power a media center, DLP projector and 2 xbox 360s and i barely cause it to burp.

I have two systems, one Dell and one HP, both about the same or higher than what you have. And Vista quite often just "pauses" for no apparent reason for 10 seconds to a couple of minutes.

Are they a laptop or desktop? Are they shared memory systems or do you have at least a real geforce 2go or radeon chipset video card? Are they 4800 RPM drives or at least 5200?

When does it pause? I can use keyboard shortcuts all day long in vista and never a pause.

And Vista crashes continually, often for no reason at all just at random.

Sounds like hardware problems. I have 5 systems running vista at home and the only time i've managed to crash one of them was upgrading my video card.

Some of the problem I am sure has to do with some 3rd party software, and/or all Adobe products - in Vista Acrobat Professional 8.1 will sometimes lock up for 1-4 minutes and then start again.

I agree.. adobe has been terribly slow to fix vista issues - but is that a fault of vista? the rest of the suite works well. Acrobat is terrible and foxit has better products. I don't think its a design issue of vista but a lack of product control from adobe.

But I have had Vista on BOTH of my machines just randomly reboot while doing nothing not long after a restart - with no programs but the usual startup programs running.

ahh.. the random reboots. Just goes to show the quality of HP and dell systems is garbage. If it randomly reboots in vista, i'm sure it does the same in XP - just quicker i guess.

And if Vista upgrades are so wonderfully easy, then why did I have to reinstall all of my MS Expression software because Vista broke it?

I dunno.. who said anything about them being wonderfully easy, i just said it was 10x easier than previous upgrades.

I never "upgrade" the os, i always do a fresh install and everything i run works.