Vista?
 

I'm currently pondering moving to Vista, I've been able to acquire a copy from my grandfather who is downgrading to XP because he doesn't like the way Vista works. I'm willing to make the leap though. I'm just curious what you all would think my performance would be like.

cpu: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ at 2411MHz
gfx: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x5B63) 256MB
ram: 1027/3070.5MB (33.44%) [|||-------]

You shouldn't have any problem at all with that setup, although I would follow your Grandfather's path. Vista is just pretty graphics and bloatware.

Well he does use programs that where coded and never upgraded past windows 3.11 so that might be a reason Vista isn't friendly to him =p

Trust me, when you want to add new programs to Vista, it won't be friendly to you, either. I figure if Microsoft can extend the support deadline for XP, then that should tell you something about the faith they have in their new baby.

Sadly Bob, I'm not looking for reasons not to upgrade, I'm looking to see if the box should run it fairly well without issues =p I don't use many old programs that I would think would have issues.

Personally I don't see any issues with Vista. As far as your specs go you should be fine. I use Vista Business and use 2 gig memory and it flies. I was only at 1 but had to bump it up as Vista does require a lot of memory.

Then, yes, you should do fine. But as chrisdaman77 pointed out, more memory would make things better.

Don't do it! I have downgraded like 20 computers for guys curious like you and it's a headache... :P

I agree, but I got chewed out for it. :(

Just out of curiosity what did you all find to be your problem? I have had bot Vista Premium and Business and any program I want to use works well for me. The only thing I found so far that didn't work was my printer...but it is an older printer.