Beryl in all its glory...

3D cube workspace

Look at that pretty, pretty cube! To go from one workspace to another (All you Windows infidel: Workspace is a wonderful idea where you have put different windows in different workspace, and have them "separated" so you don't have about a million windows opened at the same time. Think about one space for your email, one for your spreadsheet and whatnot, and one where your IM is running. You just click to that workspace when you want to.), you do get this pretty cube effect.... so pretty.... anyway, that's not even half of it...

Windows Animations

I wasn't too happy with the animation until I played around and foudn them all... heh. I've decided that whenever I close a window I want to see it burn. The screen shot doesn't do it justice. It's really really REALLY pretty. Everytime I close a window I still sigh in contentment when I see the buggers burn.

Raindrops keep falling on my head

Ah... raindrops. So soothing. It's not like I switch it on 24/7. It's not THAT annoying. Animated raindrops!

In conclusions...

Admit defeat, Vista! You can have a pretty and secured OS without costing am arm and a leg.

Although I do admit that there are bugs that really need ironing out. Especially when the graphic card isn't actually all that nice and fast. (Pete tried that on his family's computer... took a while to go around all the bugs.)

But seriously, if you have a new machine, there's no reason why you would want to slow it down again by loading Vista. Ubuntu's new release doesn't eat up half as much resources (i.e. doesn't slow your machine to a crawl), doesn't require high end graphics (well, unless you install Beryl to make it look pretty.. even Beryl doesn't need top of the line graphics though, unlike Vista), you don't have to worry about virus or spyware, you don't have to buy software (there's a big list of free software where you can just search and click "install".), and it's free! It's meant to be free!

Ask your local geek for more information. :)