yeah, but if the bottom wrung has 512-1GiB ram, if your OS doesn't run on the bottom wrung, I think it's legitimate to criticize you. If you want the OS alone to eat more than that, you had better bring some compelling features to compensate, and the perception, at least, was that vista did not bring those compelling features.
That's if your bottom wrung hardware ever got driver support. I had an nForce mobo that would bluescreen anytime DirectSound was initialized. It didn't stop BSOD'ing until SP2, and by that point, I retired the computer.
