I've gathered that Vista's biggest problem is that you either need a metric ton of memory and disk space or else you're very sorry you have it. And it's something you don't ever want to put on a laptop.

I've held off upgrading my desktop computer to 7, both because I'm cheap and also because I'd have to worry about programs breaking or needing to be reinstalled, adjusted, and so on.

Yeah, this is for my mom, and she is not building a machine nor am I building one for her.

My family has the Sony Vaio at home. It seems fine.

I had a Toshiba laptop with 2GB of memory and Vista ran/runs just fine.

I don't think there would be much trouble going from Vista to Windows 7, they aren't much different though 7 has plenty of refinements. But I don't think I'd upgrade either.

A year ago we got all new computers at work, and for the first time we hired outside consultants to set everything up. They strongly discouraged us from having Vista installed, so we got the workstations with XP. They said if their clients insisted on Vista, they would charge twice as much for support than they would for XP.

So far my bosses have made no noises of switching to 7.

I'm the only person I know who doesn't curse Vista every day of its use.

You know, I've never had a problem with Vista. I'm not a superuser or anything but both of my machines with it have been trouble-free.

I have Vista on my laptop and am fine with it.

as a mac user, I have a win7 Compaq laptop. It's a single core processor. It works just fine. It's almost like MacOS-lite. Some frustrating things every once in awhile, but nothing like 95 days. I think its a better interface than XP. Mind you, 90% of what I do on it is e-mail and cruising the internet. Occasionally I try to stream a video to my xbox. It has moderate success with that. But I blame the single core processor on that.

• * reason for getting win laptop instead of mac? Price. This little puppy was on sale for $300 at Best Buy. I was looking to replace my iPod for travel. $50 more, and got a full computer. I got it in February (I think).

Heh. Noticed when I went to Vividcon last year that vidding fan girls squee over cute little notebook computers just like they were babies. These women (and a few men) are the exact Venn diagram intersection of computer savvy and "feminine" aesthetics.

I'm mad because we bought a computer with Vista on it at Best Buy and they told us that it came with a free upgrade to Windows 7. When Windows 7 became available we called Best Buy and they told us the software was free but we had to pay to have someone from the geek squad come out and istall it. I don't hate Vista that much.

When Windows 7 became available we called Best Buy and they told us the software was free but we had to pay to have someone from the geek squad come out and istall it.

Ooh. That ain't right.

Is there a term for that? Sorta' like "bait-and-switch"?