Ahhh.....Vista. Save the pennies for hardware upgrades, kids. One of the geek sites got their hands on beta 2; this bugger consumes 800meg of system ram -idle-. The install footprint is 7 gigabytes. I don't even want to think about all the problems the nifty neat new 3D effects Areoglass desktop is going to cause conflicting with all the happy 3D apps that people use.....