Vista - Why so many flavors?

[Greg Perkins]

Just to set the record straight, my system specs are as followed...

3.06g P4 w. ht
200gig sata hard drive
512 mb of ram
onboard video

Vista home premium runs fine on these settings...yea sometimes it gets laggy, but I can game AND run Inventor 2008 on it.

[jacob07]

I bought this computer for a graduation present to me.

* Dell Inspiron E1505
* Intel Core Duo 1.66Ghz
* 1GB RAM
* 80GB Hard Drive
* ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
* Intel PROset wireless 3945ABG
* Windows Vista Home Premium

I heard all the rumors not to buy vista because it still has "new program bugs" that need to be fixed, it will make your life harder, and it will crash every other hour. I haven't come across any of these problems. Im on it at least 6 hours a day, running it to the max. I love it. It runs smoother then XP, it looks nicer and is much easier to do things. The only problem is that not many 3D design programs won't be compatible until 08. SO here i am waiting till 08. But if your looking to get Vista you need to make sure that you have at least 1 gig of memory and a decent graphics card. With out these it WILL be hard to run vista. But before you buy vista read the box it explains all the do's and don'ts for running it. Hope this helped

Jacob