[anamax]

Vista isn't as usable on such a system as XP was on a system that was less than half as capable. (XP is faster with less than half the memory and one slower processor.) More to the point, Vista is annoyingly slow on such a system, and that's after I managed to turn off the indexer. (Said indexer made the system unusable.)

Until Vista, buying a new computer meant getting noticably something faster. It may not have been as much faster as the underlying hardware change, but it was faster. Vista broke that.