Hmm... I guess they are still sort of keeping the promises (well, System Requirements given my Microsoft) made by Microsoft that Vista would only need 512 MB space (minimum 512 MB)? But even so, my XP is just getting about 400 MB of PF usage with 54 processes running, so Microsoft definitely has to do something with this.

Looks like the way things are going, Microsoft has a long way to go until it releases the OS (even though they are planning to release it December) mainly because if somebody were to buy a preconfigured system (or Vista itself) ... then they would have to pay a lot more than just getting a normal XP comp (because Vista PC's would need better GPU's, newer hardware and more RAM to run RAM hogging programs). Which is obviously not the result Microsoft wants, so chances are that this is going to change by the time it gets out of beta.

I would definitely wait and see what critics say about Vista before going ahead and getting it.