This is a nice computer and Vista has a lot of nice bells and whistles...if you want to regress to speeds slower that those that you may have experienced 4 ot 5 years ago.  (Actually my 4 year old Dell Optiplex desktop that I bought on ebay for a little over $100 runs circles around this computer in terms of performance.)  I added a flash drive to take avantage of Boost, but the incease in performance is imperceptable.  Speaking of imperceptable I contacted Gatway for advice/help on increasing the performance and their support is imperceptable.  The suggested options that would double the...