Agreed.

I play using a MBP. Heck even my wife;s old G5 iMac plays WoW fairly well (one of the first of the previous gen, 17" with low low end video card)

Making it Vista only would be like making it Mac only. Blizzard success comes from making great games, that are available to basically anyone who would play games. If you machine can't play a Blizzard game, then you probably would not play it anyways (yes, you the one that only plays Book Worm).

Just in case you didn't know, WoW runs perfectly on a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh. I play using one (my macbook is terrible for gaming :S)

WoW on my Vista Ultimate runs perfectly fine with stable 60 fps (all sliders on "Video" are max).

@NeSuKuN -- WoW [and BC] run just peachy on my 2.2GHz, 4GB MacBook. :)

@bohemian21, sure, but mine is a first gen with only 512MB xD

@andyjay220

Who are these strange, elusive people who swear by Windows ME? Show me one and I will show you a leprechaun riding a unicorn.

Sorry, been reading textbooks all day. Should read:
*should run just fine.


Said vista twice.

It's the same song and dance that happened with windows ME, 2000, xp, etc. The OS is fine except the driver support is lagging behind (which I admit is not good). However, I run a high end gaming rig with many fancy parts and vista works just fine and dandy for me. But we're going to have ppl who swear by it and swear at it, just like everything else.

No, actually 98, Win2k, and XP didn't have nearly as many issues as Vista has now and had at launch. All 3 OSes were fairly large progressive leaps forwards in terms of driver support, ease of use, security, etc. All 3 had minor issues for the first couple of months that were resolved. However, 98 and XP had widespread adoption relatively quickly (2k was more of a commercial oriented OS). There were few people who just had to hold on to 95 and didn't want 98 or had to keep 98/2k when XP was out. Vista has so little going for it. It's got the all-or-nothing security system that most people, including me, disable the first day. Game performance is awful. DirectX 10 is currently a sick joke. Driver support is spotty. If I wanted an OS where drivers were a pain in the ass, had a pretty GUI, game performance sucked, and no one use or knew how to correctly use the security features I'd download Ubuntu and Compiz.

Vista got a bad rap when it came out due to driver issues; these have been largely resolved (see link below);

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_nvidia_windows_vista_driver_performance_update/page3.asp

With minimal drops in performance for an OS that is doing more under the hood (desktop search etc...). I think if you actually go back to when XP, 2000 and other OS's were released you'd realise this is actually a pretty stable and performant OS (the benchmarks for games on XP never got close to the old 9x numbers).

If you are using Vista I would advise using a USB stick and enabling it as a "Super Fetch" drive the increase in load times (after an initial load) are really noticable especially with games.

I don't see how ubuntu has crappy driver support. Nor do I see really crappy driver support with Vista. Sure, with some really old tech.