Joined on 01/17/07
Not at all like i espected from the chit chat.

Pros: New style is extremely sleek and beautiful, installed all the drivers for me (except my integrated AC'97 audio chip), somehow expanded my 256mb vram to a wopping 520mb, more secure then fort knox, direct x 10, the widgets are extremely handy and cool, the installation seamed to be faster then with xp... maybe it just me? Theres many many many more pros then this but I couldn't fit them all within 1000 characters. Just trust me on this all this "exact same as xp excpet the new look" stuff is completely untrue (which i have known before i got it but id like to point out those people don't have a clue about this operating systems advances.) All the complaining over "bugs" I have heard also seams to be untrue. However, i wouldnt put my money to it seeing how there were updates to be downloaded when i bought this so it might have fixed those "bugs."
Cons: BIG cons here for medium and low range systems. Ram usage with this operating system is MASSIVE if you dont have 2gb like myself you will very quickly run out!! Its also pretty hard on your cpu when compaired to xp but its really nothing too bad for high end systems. Overall the major con is medium and low end systems might be "vista ready" but there not gonna run it well.
Overall Review: I'd like to say if your going to use this I recomend at least 1.5gb ram, an amd processor 2ghz or more with at least 2 cores, a geforce 7 series or later with at least 256mb, and a large hard disc since this does use alot of space! The "bugs" that people have been complaining about may have been caused by there systems being too slow for vista you might want to stick to xp if your system isn't very good!
Turns thermal compounds to liquid.

Pros: Amazing! It turned the thermal paste that came with my cpu to liquid. It came off with 3 wipes of a paper towel (i know i know don't say it. I used a lint free cloth fort he final few wipes with the surface purifier.) I'm so impressed at the volume you get as well! Arctic silver 5 meet my cpu perfectly cleaned by this.
Cons: Wow... none.
Not Recommended.

Pros: If you are totally oblivious to the other choices it is fine. Native memory pro duo slot, 2GB for the casual guy with a little music and maybe a movie.
Cons: Nothing near what you can get. I just spent $30 on SDHC based memory for my PSP. All you need is a converter and you can get way more for less. This memory stick is slow... simple. Even among native memory pro duos this is not a good choice.
Overall Review: Your coughing up for the Sony name. Just get a converter for SDHC and get 4x+ the space for less.
RAID0 Performance is quite pleasing.

Pros: Absolutely satisfying Price/Performance Ratio. In RAID0 with 16K strips i get around 100Mbps and a burst of about 120Mbps. Extremely quiet i have owned this over 10 months and i have only heard it working 3 times. Even then i had to turn down my speakers to hear it. Plus i have a thin case so it doesn't take much for sound to get to me. The first drive i order so long ago is smaller then the 2nd one i ordered just a few months ago (this is when i implemented RAID0.) But that isn't a terribly big deal since the changes seam to be minute seeing how RAID0 is running perfectly. Vista booted up with its built-in RAID drivers and immediately gave me the fastest Vista install yet without a hitch.
Cons: Absolutely none whatsoever.

Pros: LARGE, so large it hangs off my desk and keeps the corner of my desk from rubbing my wrist raw (i have a lousy desk.) Tracks flawlessly on my Logitec MX518. Mouse slides around on it very well but my mouse skates are still damaged from the time I've spent using my mouse on my desk because my old pad caused tracking errors.
Cons: I truly don't see anything wrong with this pad in any way.
Lazy Ubisoft Great Game!!

Pros: Excellent story, amazing game play, plenty of weapons, weapons upgrade, makes you work for what you want and need, sci-fi horror genre is a dieing breed Resident Evil and silent hill are all that is left.
Cons: Ubisoft did a remarkable L-A-Z-Y job on this game. I may never buy another game from them out of spite. They took the amazing version of the PS2 to the horribly ported version of the PC. Now when they ported it from console to PC they neglected to raise the graphical bar. Going from 380p to 1024x768 (1440x900 myself) to need to increase the graphical detail and sharpness to a whole new level. Ubisoft simply took the graphics (including joystick and button smashing animations even!!) and ported them over with 0 improvements. This made the game look horrible on PC. They also don't have ANY mouse support, that is right NO MOUSE SUPPORT!!!!! You either get a game pad or a mouse support plug-in which caused the configuration tool to not work for me. So i couldn't is my mouse... and i couldn't play the game unless i could use my mouse so i dug out an old usb controller and used it. If you don't have a controller i would advise you to not even bother!
Overall Review: I would like to add everyone who ever plays this please send Ubisoft hate mail, thank you.