Aside from looks how is Vista compared to XP overall in terms of features and performance..is it bloated with useless apps? How does it perform in games,any bench comparisons?

does it handle fragmentation any better, will it likely still need lots of maintance and are there any particular cool features that vista has thats goin to make it worth paying $200 when its released?

3d app testing would require that you could actually run 3d apps in this version (I haven't been able to at least....not yet, anyway). Could be that I've got an error somewhere that I haven't found yet.

Edited August 1, 200521 yr by Ronin

What trouble are you having, Ronin? I ran Amapi and others are running Maya... Do you think it's a driver issue?

Not sure, tbh. I think it's going back to the CPU throttling thing, too. I can run 3d apps, but they're painfully slow (such as AM3, for example).

Hmmm - gonna try Cinebench on XP (x32 and x64) then Vista (x32 and x64) and post results. This thing is the best overall bench for 3d apps IMHO... L8R!