Those of you wanting to jump right in to the pH balanced fun of Vista can now do so thanks to NewEgg. They’re now shipping those lovely holographic DVD’s of Vista, $200 gets you Vista Ultimate OEM. Those of you who want some decent use out of those 4GB+ systems and need 64-bit will have to wait just a little bit as they don’t have those DVD’s in stock. Buying your OS through this channel is totally cool, buy some more RAM or another HDD and it’s all good. You’ll probably need it for Vista anyway. Or better yet buy yourself a nice NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner and start using Media Center, it’s all there in Ultimate.

My honest advice though is that if your system is 2 years old you might as well just retire the system to the kids rig or spare PC and buy a new Dell or the like with Vista preloaded. You’ll have less to worry about with drivers and you’ll definitely have a better experience. Plus you should be able to buy an extra license for the home as well which is relatively cheap.

Finally, it really will be at least till the end of the year before Vista truly meets the XP quality levels, patches, real RTM drivers, super glue, super massive black holes, whatever it takes, but until the end of the year I probably won’t be surprised to hear quite a few horror stories and pain points. But you know if XP can really get up to snuff with SP2 there’s no reason Vista can’t either.

Enjoy your goods, and get ready for that “wow”…

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