Originally Posted by this_is_gav
I've said the opposite. Vista Business (x86 and without Aero) on oldish hardware works just as good, if not faster than XP SP2. It was fine on a Sempron laptop with 512mb and a rather crap 4,200rpm drive.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. 512MB RAM with everything turned off is still not enough to run Vista In my experience - even after leaving it for everything to settle down for a few days.