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I have Vista on a laptop with 2GB RAM, a Core 2 Duo 1.66Ghz and 8600M GS graphics (with 512Mb) and Vista runs pretty slow compared to XP, with programs and general startup taking an age to load in comparison - it's basically awful for what it is, as it should load stuff alot faster than it does. There wasn't anything really put on the laptop by default apart from some trial firewall software, so it's not like there is loads of bloatware pre-installed. My dads old A64 3200+ with 1GB Ram runs miles faster on XP, and as I would expect it to. If I had the choice, I'd have stuck with XP when getting the laptop.