[Norco]

Im running Vista Ultimate on a pc with 80gb hard drive, 2gb ram, Pentium 4 processor which was designed for XP, and it works very well. I haven't had any issues with my performance levels. The only thing I somehow manged to disable it from recharging the battery.. so to use it I have to plug it in every time. I have been using it for 3 months now too. The only thing I don't like is some programs aren't compatible with the graphics (areo) and boots it out to the old looking theme. But I haven't had any other compatibility issues, it runs smoothly, and I am a hard person on pcs!

But, when leopard does come out, I am migrating over to a macbook pro. Apparently everyone says to stick with a top of the line macbook because the pros over heat and such. I leave my computer on all day usually.. so it needs to withstand being on! I leave the laptop I am on now on all the time, so that would be a must. I personally thing mac is the way to go.. you can simply run bootcamp on it and access any windows program available.

Good luck with your next computer!