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Wow Chem, i wasn't even aware of your website. I went there from the thread on the Wii and read your reviews. Very cool.

I'm sure you know but I read at Cnet, I think it was, where they were saying that Microsoft has said that Vista will run games 10 to 15% slower than XP, because the 3d desktop runs all the time. To me that's unbelievable. If this is indeed true it will be a deal breaker for me. I was originally planning on buying Vista but I keep coming upon more reasons not to and it seems that as hard as I try, I can't come up with any good reasons TO buy it. For awhile they said you could only migrate Vista through one change, like a motherboard, WTF? I think they've backed off on that one but what's next? And like you pointed out in your review, they have stripped Vista of all the cool things originally planned. I do know this, I won't be the first on the bus:-). They are so worried and paranoid about the thing getting hacked they have convinced me to stay away from it and all the BS that will go along with it.
You predict it will last only two years. What will Microsoft do then, though? No way they can get another system out in two years. It'll probably take them longer than that to get this beast running comfortably on "everymans" computer. I can't wait. There will be lot's of good reading in forums and such when this thing comes out. They probably didn't put it out before Christmas because they didn't want to spend their holidays trying to support it! lol