Vista apparently will run a bazillion times better if you know how to turn off some of the fancy graphics, which you BET I'll be doing. Apparently with most computers it's hard to downgrade operating systems, so most now with Vista have to stick with Vista, because some of the drivers for programs won't work otherwise.

You has an olddddddddddddd Dell. Here I thought I was special for making mine last this long. I got an external harddrive for my music & pictures, so it saves a lot of space. (I have 9GB of space left, on a 33GB internal harddrive, not too shabby!). Processor is going though... and it's not holding a battery charge beyond 2 hours, and it frequently will crash with too many programs open at once. Very sad.

I do like Dell, I'm very surprised when people complain about it. Staying AWAY from Toshiba. Not sure about HP. And I don't want anything to do with an Apple (too much stuff to learn there).