Well, it looks nice. And about the graphics card thing; what do you think your 3D card is doing when you're not playing a game? Pretty much nothing. Why shouldn't windows use those hundreds of megahertz to run the GUI instead, and at the same time free some CPU cycles?
And about huge RAM usages, that might be because of the new preloading technology. If RAM isn't used, it'll use it to preload parts of programs you tend to use at different times. For example, if you tend to play FFXI or WoW at the afternoons every day, it'll load lots of resources into RAM a bit before that, so that those programs can launch real quick. Ofcourse, Vista might not always be able to predict what you're going to use. However, if you run low on RAM, it's supposed to clear that stuff from memory instantly. If it works.
From what it seems, running admin as default is supposed to go away too, and they've implemented technologies that will let even poorly programmed programs that earlier required administrator rights, still be able to run as a restricted user. You will also be able to downprioritize interrupts from certain programs, so that virus scanners will affect you productivity (or gaming) far less than it would by simply downprioritizing the CPU usage.
I think Vista will be pretty good. If you look at the giant leap Windows XP was from Windows NT 4, then imagine a similiar leap in technology from XP to Vista, I think it will be cool. I'll get it if it doesn't have too much DRM crap in it. I suppose I will still be able to run Winamp and get regular MP3s, so I guess I'm okay. I might have to get a cracked version if the price tag is too high though :p.
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