The reason most in this thread have not helped out is for two reasons, firstly he has another thread running and secondly and most importantly is what he was asking in this thread, ie he was wanting opinions on what people thought of Vista and whether anyone has Mach running with it. As I have never tried Mach with Vista I cant give an answer to that but I have messed with enough computers in the last year that have Vista on them to know that it needs copious amounts of memory to perform at even a slow pace.
As for my comment regarding working for Bill, obviously you didnt see the emoticon, it was said in good humour.
Your analagy about the shop space and memory has gone way over my head, my take on it is if you have 2Gig of memory and run XP you will need 4 times that to run Vista at anything coming near to a similar speed. XP in itself is not efficient with memory but compared to Vista it is positively frugal.
Your comment regarding the laptop is also misplaced as from what I see Phill is not saying he tried it with Mach, he is merely confirming how much of a memory hog Vista is with normal day to day aplications. Also I fail to see where the OP says he has a laptop, if its a PCI card he is using then I would think it be a desktop.
Oh and also I fail to see anyone in the posts you mention saying that it is Vistas fault, well maybe in post 1 but that is the OP himself so that doesnt count
Just myt thoughts on the matter, obviously yours differ and I respect that and it will give the OP all the more to go on to make his mind up reagrding which OS he decides to use with Mach.
Hood