That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal. 1) click on start menu 2) wait 3 seconds for it to respond and open 3) click o

That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal. 1) click on start menu 2) wait 3 seconds for it to respond and open 3) click on icon for browser 4) wait 15 seconds for it to respond 5) wait 5 seconds for it to render the default home page 6) type in desired url and wait 3 seconds for it to download and render. It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox. The above is an example of the vista user experience on a slower computer. That same computer could (running linux) load google chrome and open the desired page in 1 second each.