5728 on Inspiron 6400, 2ghz, 1gig ram...

Got sick of waiting for RC1 DVD to arrive, so downloaded 5728, saved it to a
directory on my windows C: XP partition, used magiciso to unpack the files
onto the C: drive, ran setup and told it to install to V: drive, it gave me
the usual message about windows.old being created. Dual boot was retained,
big sigh of relief as I had problems there with beta 2. Reinstalled office
2007, then techrelease for same, and other software.

Everything appears to be working very well, the best thing is that aero is
finally working on the intel chipset 945gm, totally smoother than using the
generic WDDM driver that came with beta 2..

The speed up compared to beta 2 is very noticeable, launch times, close down
and program operation speed is fantastic!!!! Now I just have to decide
whether to hose UAC or just accept it as part of the necessary brave new
vista world

Finally a big thank you to all the regular posters here, whose patience and
advice I have greatly admired and appreciated over the past three months. I
feel that I now know a lot about vista installation on various machines and
feel very confident in the unofficial support role I am sure to have at work
and with friends over the next two years