I knew I should have written my article yesterday! Actually, it was fun to read Adam's post today about Vista. We were obviously studying the big box store prices on the "new" Vista machines using the same calculator. Since he did a great job explaining the pricing, I just want to echo his final statements; DO NOT buy a Vista machine with less than 1 GB of RAM and you really should consider 2 GB of RAM (or more) for better Vista performance.
Lastly, I wanted to share this great quote from a CNET newsletter I received today: "That $200 Windows XP service pack called Vista" . WOW! Pun intended.