So here I sit with my Vista Basic (no Aero interface) powered laptop - I currently have the memory of my low end Acer laptop maxed at 2 gigs. I killed the cool-daddy paint job and fade-in menus and fluff, and I usually use my thumbdrive that is Readyboost enabled to try and keep things running fast, and it may be placebo effect, but overall, the puter seems to give decent performance.
The clarseic view seems about the same as I would expect from most gui'd computers.
I like the wifi - has a button to turn on and off wifi access, and it auto recognizes connections that are open or that have been set up in the past. Nice.
The main beef I currently have with the system is that it doesn't accept my settings - I cut video down to high color from true color. On reboot, back to true color. Irfanview - I am a loyal user for something like 10 years - you would think there would be a way to tell the UAC (User access Control) to allow the thing to run without the "should we run this" popup EVERY TIME I TRY TO USE IT. You can right click the exe and set "run as administrator", but it, once again, doesn't take. I can kill UAC, and i think I might. Maybe that will help out some.
