peep this....
1) you could build a rig on dell.com for about 800 or less
2) that means thatyou pay about 500 bucks for a new comp (if you extract the cost of windows vista)
3) MS KNOWS that vista will only work with state of the art machines
4) To save their butts they make the price wayyy too high, so people end up buying newer machines too
5) Windows vista can run properly due to the new machinery
6) MS doesn't look like a team of jackbutts cuz their OS is as slow as mollassis
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