Do a little checking on Vista SP1 before you trash your current system; even Microsoft is not making any great hue and cry over it. As near as can be told, VSP1 is basically nothing but all the incremental updates shoved into one executable, with a few tweaks added. No major changes in the way things work. And the next OS is starting the same way as Vista and XP did; thin client model (a la Citrix) and offsite storage on coolio MS servers, and hey, we'll let you pay to access your data! Ain't that sweet of us? Corporate clients have been paying extra to get Vista -removed- from the hardware they've been buying for nearly a year. Keep that in mind before jumping into the latest and greatest....