Sup,
>>4 here
>>5
Did you miss the part where I mentioned I was a Mac user? I rarely play games on my computer, and I didn't think games are considered much of a reason to use Vista to begin with. Your rant is misguided and confusing.
With your weird point "SOME OF US USE THE COMPUTER TO DO WORK", you are negating the fact that a properly indexed file search can help your work, as can advanced window manipulation stuff like the taskbar thumbnails and Flip3D thing, as can even goddamn widgets in certain cases. I'm not arguing that these are all well implemented or will be universally useful to everyone, but stuff like Vista's GPU-based windowing, enhanced explorer thumbnails, centralised calendar\address book\photo databases, previous versions etc are not going to unambiguously hamper your ability to do work, and will in most cases augment it, however slightly. Are you the same type of guy that held off on switching to Win95 because DOS loaded faster?
>>6
No. 1gb is just fine for Vista, though if you're a hardcore PS user you might want a bit more. I'd just make sure all your apps are considered stable and compatible, not sure if Adobe is waiting for CS3 to do Vista support right.
>>7
What the shit. "NO OPERATING SYSTEM SHOULD NEED 1GB OF RAM!" "OKAY I GUESS IT DOESN'T NEED 1GB OF RAM BUT THEN IT DISABLES THE RAM-HUNGRY FEATURES!" Stop fucking crying and buy a $30 stick of ram for your ailing 512mb PC and enjoy the fact that the software world moved on after 2001 just like the component manufacturers did. Vista is not the greatest most perfect thing in the world by any means, nor is Tiger, but they both have a lot of neat things that make use of the fact we now have beastly graphics cards and dual core 2ghz processors that sit around doing nothing 95% of the time. Accept fucking progress and upgrade when you feel your system's up to it.
Also what? OS X is just as much of a RAM hog and last I heard a lot of video and graphics people use Macs. You're talking out your ass and are exaggerating both the amount of extra RAM usage of Vista compared to XP and the inconvenience of getting more RAM. Besides, most PCs have been coming with 1gb for some time now, and 1gb is more than enough for Vista.