I just got in a brand new laptop from Dell. Its got a 1.6ghz dual core proc and 1gb of ram. Its got a fancy little sticker on it that says "vista compatable". I ran that tool that someone linked to a few pages back and acording to MS I am going to loose my sound capabilties if I upgrade. Hmmmmmm I think i will stay with XP for a while. At least 6 months.