Anyone tryin it out?

Nope

I will wait for a few months or so. Read reviews and figure out if it is all that. Looks pretty BUT how does it perform.

nope, besides asking for a lot of requirements i'll also wait to see its stability...

Yes. I installed the Beta 2 which worked pretty good. Then I installed RC1 and it started crashing every ten minutes so I blew it away and put XP Pro back on the box. I plan to wait for the driver and application support to catch up with Vista before I will try again.

I plan on waiting at least a year for the same reasons terabyte mentioned. From what I read its goin to just as bad or worse than switching from 98 to XP when XP first came out.

I was running the RTM version a while back on a 'spare machine' I had laying around. It seemed to work ok on that machine and it was pretty far below the minimum specs.

At the time you really couldn't do anything with it because of lack of driver support and what-not. But it was sure was a 'gorgeous' looking OS. Try not to flame me for using the word 'gorgeous' while talking about an operating system. It just looked THAT nice though.

well my pc is dieing it could do with a reinstall... should i by a copy of vista?

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk £135.11 inc VAT its not expenisve

No way I am going to use that OS!!!

If I were to use it I don't think I would get the 64 bit ver. You would have to be DARN sure that the software you like works on it as we as the hardware you have. MS made it harder for joe blow to uses there current perifials with MS:V64. The none 64 bit ver is probably the safest way to go right now for older computers.

Nope... I'm happy with what i have.

I think it will go the same as winME.

mmmmmmmmmm....funbags.

Odin!

as odin says no... i will go with no... plus the fact that there rushing sp1 out already makes me think twice

Im afraid my older printer and my scanner wont be on the drivers list. Plus until I can afford a direct X 10 vid card I see no point.

Yep!
I ran the Beta 2, then the RC1.
Found great improvements over that time.
Installed Vista Home Premium on Jan 31 and everything has been running well since then.
I have an AMD64-X2 4600+, 2GB RAM and an NVidia 256MB GeForce 6600 running the default Vista graphics driver.
NVidia is slack concerning providing updated drivers for the graphics and the chipset. For instance, I have an NForce4 chipset but it spits the dummy on running USB 2.0 devices if you have more than 2GB of RAM installed. NVidia has yet to provide release drivers for their video cards and their chipsets.

I just finished installing Ultimate, Major improvment from the beta and rc1!!

I'm runnin Vista now, and those requirements are actually not requirements, just more or less recommendations. The requirements state a minimum of 128MB of video RAM for Aero Glass, I'm running Glass with 64MB. 1GB of System RAM, I'm running 512MB and using a page file of 1024-2048MB (I dont think it reads the page file for a minimum requirement). I havent tested it on a celeron but I doubt it would have any issues on that either. I think I remember a minimum of a 2 GHz Processor, It runs on mine running at 908/1.6GHz (though it's rated for 2.8GHz, so it may be looking at that)