it was just impossibly slow. 2x 2ghz processor and 3 gigs of high speed ram, and it was nowhere near the speed of my xp laptop with 1 x 2.5 processor and 2 gigs of ram.

i stripped as much as i could out of it per all the online articles about reducing vista's bloatware and i just wouldn't speed up.

i intended it to be a media pc and record tv/watch tv through it. i even had a cable card installed, and it skipped and stuttered and recorded shitty video.

all this may be attributable to the crappy nvidia 256meg video card, but i think not.

*shrug*

i'll stick with XP for now.

-s