yeah, they should really have made Vista not let you install it on a machine that couldn’t handle it. If you install it on a POS or upgrade something full of spyware, its going to beat the hell out of your machine. Then you tell 50 people how much it sucks.
I think some of the blame goes to the manufacturers that sold boxes with integrated graphics as “vista premium ready”. Then people wonder why it looks like shit even though they’re on a new machine, when all they need is a $50 graphics card.