>> And yet, I run Vista (Home Premium, even!) on a rather moderate machine. 
>> 2.6 P4, 200GB harddrive, and 2.5G ram. It runs rather smoothly, actually. 
>> I didn't notice any considerable performance drop from WinXP to Vista.
>
> In which universe is a machine with a 200 GB HD and more than 1 GB of RAM 
> considered "moderate"? That sounds pretty high-end to me...

Well not your universe obvously ;-)  In our universe on dell.co.uk you can 
get a core2duo 2.3 GHz with a 20" LCD, 2GB RAM and 320 GB HD for 529 GBP 
total.  And as you keep telling us, Dell's prices are 73x more than 
everywhere else, so I think that is a pretty moderate spec to me :-)

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