I have Home Premium on both my Laptop and Desktop. It seems to be all I need but I am not satisfied with the support given by software manufacturers including Microsoft. I have many crashes with software supposedly certified for Vista. Some of these include TV/Video capture cards, Antispyware programmes, flash drives and of all things Microsoft Office XP which I had to update to Office 2007 on the desktop as it was prone to regularly crashing. The helpful Vista advisory service kept telling me that it was not suitable for Vista. Microsoft should not have allowed this situation to occur and I wonder how many more people were caught and had to fork out a couple of hundred dollars (Australian) more for a programme which worked. I stick to OpenOffice on the laptop and it works without any trouble.  

Home Basic !

Home Basic ! That was all that was availlable at Wal-mart when I bought my E-machine !!  I don't feel like paying the incresee to upgrade to HOME PREMIUM

I have Vista Home Premium, i think it's brilliant

Vista Ultimate on my Laptop and Business on my Desktop

Vista Home Premium 32-bit, hoping to change that to Ultimate 64-bit at some point

Ultimate

I have vista ultimate. It came installed on my new HP quad core pc. It had some `teething' problems in the begining, but they were hardware related. After hp replaced my power supply and motherboard, it still was`nt right. So I reinstalled the os myself and I am very happy with it now. I run dual screens; a 22" widescreen and a 32" hdtv monitor. The multitasking is great. I have been converting old slides into jpegs on my photosmart C7180 all-in-one, listening to music, surfing the web; and my pc did`nt even break a sweat. I like the silverlight and moving background. Though I am still waiting for some MORE ultimate extras.

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The learning never ends.

Using Home Premium 64-bit here also.  I would have bought Ultimate, but I don't see anything in it to justify the price.  I can get cheaper card games, and the movie background thing just sounds distracting.  It is a shame I can't play with VirtualPC for fun, but VMWare and VirtualBox both work great in the OS I am using.  If they add anything worth the price to Ultimate, I would give Microsoft a little more cash.

Even if you aren't a gamer, if you want to try something fun; you should download the Supreme Command Demo.  I used to like RTS games back in the day, and I've been goofing off now that I am back in school but out for the summer.  It has integrated multi-monitor support, so you can have a large tactical map on one monitor and a zoomed in battle map on the other.  I am still figuring out how to do the controls for each; I think the Readme explains it though.  I like seeing more things go multi-monitor capable.  I have a 28" and a 22" on my desk, and a second video card hooked up to my 46" LCD TV.  I really like the multi-monitor support that is integrated, and NVIDIA's drivers.  It is a shame they couldn't implement some of their features from the XP set in Vista though, but I am sure they will come up with new tricks for the new OS.

 Markster:

 The reason you miss XP so much might be related to the amount of RAM you have.  Even though Vista Home Premium will run with 1 GB, it won't run particularly well.  It is especially bad if 320 MB of that 1 GB is shared with the video system.  My wife's laptop has 2 GB and is tolerable for her general needs (internet browsing, video streaming, a little OpenOffice).  My computer had 2.5 GB RAM.  I played with Vista a few times but tended to be unhappy with it for my personal needs on my main computer.l  On the laptop, it was fine with 2 GB (even when I was the one using it), since I was accustomed to doiing one or two things at a time on the laptop probably.  I think expanding it out to 4 GB was the best (and one of the cheapest) upgrades I could have done for my overall performance.  The caching makes everything run better, and some things that would not run at all run fine. If this old motherboard supported it, I would not hesitate a second before dropping in 4 more gigabytes.

 Even laptop RAM is cheap these days, just don't buy it from the manufacturer.  Find out what you need; NewEgg it or what not; it is really easy to install (as long as you make sure you touch something metal to make sure you are discharged before ever touching the RAM and what not).

I have Windows Ultimate (32Bits) on my wife's computer, and I have Windows Ultimate (64Bits) on mine. I also have another computer with WHS and my old P3 computer running Windows XP for home automation security. I had some problems getting everything to work but what a thrill when you get it to work and I'm still learning every day.

Vista Ultimate x86 - Media Centre (should get x64 as I've put 4GB of RAM in)

Vista Ultimate x86 - Main Machine for gaming etc. (triple boot with XP & Ubuntu)

Vista Home Premium x86 - Second gaming machine (dual boot with XP)

 

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.7GHz: 2GB G.Skill PC3200 : Sapphire HD 2900XT c/w Glacier 600: Aquagate Max : X-Fi Elite Pro : Windows Vista Ultimate x86

Vista Home Premium

 it does all i need

I have Vista Ultimate (32 bit) on both my notebook and desktop.  I waited to switch until SP1 was released and so far and very happy with Vista!!!

Too many legacy devices atm for Vista 64 bit. :-(