Not sure where you live but vista home costs 99 bucks... vista ultimate is only 250 here. and vista pro is 150. As for upgrading i would not recommend it with any on board video anything. As for gaming i have not tried yet. going to install wow on it this week to make sure it works while i move to italy so i have something to do. It seems somewhat demanding but no worse then windows xp running firefox and a few bullshit apps in the tray. You can also do the whole classic view thing so it doesn't skin everything and have the glass look while keeping the new featured start menu and such.

> Games and appz alike? I sure wouldn't be able to buy a legit copy of it
> (specially with such a groovy pricetag of almost 500 bucks), but i'd be
> interested to switch over once it's fully cracked if i didn't get too much
> hassle over that.
>
> Also, how is the performance in games? Does the OS demand too much more thus
> decresing performance or is it on par (or better) than in XP? And still on the
> subject of gaming, are there problems with compatibility like there were from
> the change from Win98 to XP?
>
> All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.
>