Quote Originally Posted by Omecle View Post
Yeah my dad recently got a new laptop, and Dell only sell Vista, so he had to get the business pack. He pretty much disabled any fancy stuff because it lagged his system, even with 2GB RAM, a decent onboard video card and dual core processor.

Now that's screwed. =\
That's probably because it's a Dell.
They'll install XP for you instead of Vista if you make a bit of noise, get in their faces, you know.

But really, Vista uses far more resources than it needs to. I always thought of XP Silver as something that grows in the garden too.

[q=Odaisé Gaelach]Wow, some of that looks incredibly like OS X. The Dock bar at the top of the screen, the way that windows minimize with sloping sides...[/q]

Most of the widgets you see aren't part of Beryl itself, but third-party programs. Some, including the various dockers are written specifically to emulate other operating systems' programs, like OSX.