the vista incompatibilities seem (to me) to be gone by now. ive had no problems running any app or game, or using any hardware.
and yah, vista IS a memory hog, but who the hell thinks 1gig of ram is good enough anyway? upgrade that stuff.
when win2000 required 64m of ram, people said the same crap about upgrading to XP.
"wtf?!?! 512m memory and 1mhz or higher required? that's bullstuff!!, stuffty OS"