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No need to get personal

You don't know me and if you had read the thread then you would understand a little more about my comment. True my comment was a little abrasive but I think that given the increased functionality within Vista the extra resource foot print is just too high. I think that Vista as it stands today is an undercooked piece of coding that has too many design floors. This is largely due to shoddy design in XP on which much of it is based. Thats not my opinion but that of some of the people that have been involved in creating Vista. In a year or so I think many of these issues may have been fixed with service pack releases but for now I would rather give the extra half a gig of ram that Vista requires to my applications, its as simple as that. I run a lot of very memory hungry software and that is my focus. An OS is simply a set of services for the application software. That philosophy would be one well learned at Microsoft when designing their next operating system. After 7 years in the making Vista should be better than it is, I don't think anyone can argue with that, especially as the competition manages to squeeze more functionality than Vista has into the same foot print as XP. That's a fact not an opinion. I purchased a pretty high end machine, no penny pinching as you suggest, and quite frankly Vista was just to hungry for my liking. That is why I went back to XP. So as you obviously don't know me how can you make that claim to know people like me?

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