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I have purchased several computers since Windows Vista first came out, I just made sure they had XP on them or I installed it when the computer arrived. Last week I got a new (Refurbished) Dell Studio desktop with Vista 64 bit. The thought of 6 Gigs of RAM got me all geeky and the fact that I could bump it to 8 Gigs just made it better.

The Quad core processor and the 64 bit Dell meant, even if I didn't like it, the computer isn't backward compatible with XP because much of the hardware has no XP driver available. Being a geek I bought into the Vista hating crowd even though I had never taken a serious look at it. I have set up several Vista computers for friends and relatives and I was always surprised by the lack of follow up support they needed. The computer challenged seemed to get along great with Vista.

After getting it out of the box and starting it up it took about 30 seconds to figure out the navigation. It took another 20 minutes for me to understand why my technophobic friends didn't have a problem with Vista. It doesn't let them get into things that will screw up the system. That was not a good thing for me however, I am driven to crack the registry, disarm every little bit of power sapping programming, and must bend a computer to my will. I am lord and master of my system and I hate vista... wait, I don't hate it at all, in fact I am quickly learning to love it.

Once I did a little research and figured out how to unlock the OS, I quickly set out to modify as much as possible and in doing so came to the realization that I really didn't need to change that much. Vista works pretty well right out of the box and removing bloat ware was my only real concern.

I was a little disappointed with the speed of the system, it wasn't able to break down the genetic code of my dogs very quickly or even design a new robot assistant. What it can do, and it does it so well, is run multiple programs that use a lot of resources individually. To fully test the system I ripped a DVD, while streaming HD video from my DVR, loaded my 100gigs of MP3 music into iTunes along with my 80 gigs of movies, all while surfing the web and watching cats eat spaghetti on YouTube.

Now I feel the power at my fingertips and I am happy, ecstatic even. Vista works, it works with all of my programs, it works with all of my hardware, it plays nice with all of my XP machines, and it does it quickly.

I am sure I will find something I hate about it, I always do, but so far I am only seeing good. If you have been sitting on the fence about Windows Vista, it is time to dive in and give it a chance, you won't be sorry.