Here's one benchmark page:
http://www.passmark.com/ftp/Vista-Benchmark-Results.htm
Vista offers some improvements.
But for users of professional or "prosumer" graphics applications, one should emphatically stay with XP, at least for now:
http://vnboards.ign.com/Vanguard_Sag...3/101205761/?0
Here's one compatibility list:
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.ph...atibility_List
It's not too bad in the areas I'm most concerned with. Actually, the apps with the most problems are dubious performers anyway. (I'm thinking Pinnacle and Nero stuff particularly.) Nevertheless, Vista performance with CPU-intensive programs is no improvement:
http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=85920
(The above is from the concluding page of Tom's Hardware Benchmarking article.) So I think, for my purposes at least, my reasoning is defensible, to wit: at this time, I have no good reason to switch to Vista. Yeah, there's moaning and groaning every time Microsoft rolls out a new OS.
