When Vista Capable is not enough.

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A core experience is when Bill Gates gets an Apple rammed up his Aero-shole.

Lol at the same time getting a penguin stuck in his wind-owspipe

I dont get it,
All these Vista(in)capable machines are all very powerful PCs compared to my main PC (and its a crap PC). But, im achieving something (very similar) to this link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HLtNydndU&mode=related&search=
Im using an old generic GEforce 4MX 512Mb and a 2ghz celeron. However it is just as smooth when not too loaded down, like loads and loads of windows open.
(Doesnt matter though, i can turn all the fancyness on and off cleanly with one click to get more CPU/GPU/RAM if needed for modelling or video editing).

My laptop is much more powerful and is running XP/Vista. When running vista the performance for most everyday things (web,email,word,videos,mp3,blitzmax etc) is similar to my linux one (the crap PC) except the windows one doesnt look as good.

Those people who have bought expensive state of the art 'vista capable' machines and find they arent have a right to be PISSED especially when Mac and Linux are now making it look like s..t on half the hardware.

It(vista) actually works 99%(except the odd crash and 1 bluescreen on install) on mine and im still not impressed. Certainly no WOW!
So far for me its been Linux=WOW!, OSX=COOL!, XP=NICE, VISTA=WTF!