This doesn’t come as a surprise at all. I’ve got a new laptop with 2 GB RAM and 2.o Ghz Core 2 Duo processor but Vista seems a lot slower. I sometimes wish I could go back to 98 and my old celeron minus all the crashes and constant restarts of course.

This is something that stands out from the article:

What this points up is something we’ve all known for years, that is, that Microsoft isn’t in business to benefit its customers but to fleece them. It’s in cahoots with OEMs to march the computer buying public on an endless upgrade treadmill, upon which Windows drives demand for faster CPUs and more RAM, and – thanks to preload agreements – new PCs push new versions of Windows.

By the way does anyone have a how to guide for dual booting Vista and Ubuntu?