Spd2Last

You really should just try it. I'm running the 64bit version of Home Premium and it's been running very smoothly. It's actually more reliable than my XP machine (which also has good hardware). I think the problem with most people, including myself, is that Vista came out and everybody started hating on it which created a wagon for other to ride on. I built my computer in this last Dec. and I wasn't sure whether to install XP or Vista because of what I had read from the Vista "haters". Of course some things will be done a bit differently than in XP because this is a new OS, and although Vista was kind of buggy in the very beginning, it is much more stable and reliable than when it was released.

To sum it up, Vista's been pretty good and even better than my XP computer. Give it a shot. I don't think you'll be disappointed.