well, been using vista on an alienware laptop and i like what works, but all
my multimedia applications have been effectively murdered

my graphics card, nvidia geforce 6800 go, didn't show up at first, it was
listed as a standard vga and had no hardware acceleration, when windows
update finally offered a driver it did not install properly (i've reinstalled
the driver several times) it still shows the card as not working properly,
and because i have no hardware acceleration from the standard driver i cannot
capture any video from my sony dvx2100, windows movie maker does not work,
media center does not work, i cannot view any dvd video, adobe premeir does
not work and appears to need a reinstall, nero cannot capture or edit video,
basically my pricey audio/video workstation now has the same functionality as
my tmobile sidekick.

you have a day or so before i just reinstall xp and curse the gods

fyi my laptop is diesel i exceed all the minumum requirements, i have
captured some video but it was piss poor quality (zebra'd out) and unusuable,
there have been a handful of other quirks (including the disappearance of my
disk drives) but i've worked through them, however not being able to edit
video and audio is a deal breaker here. i do more than surf the internet with
this system. the fact that dvd's won't work at all is a crying shame and some
real elementary stuff here, you guys are smart enough to fix that at least.