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If there is one thing I cannot tolerate on my blog, it is incorrect technical information. In my post on Vista Build 5270, I made some statements that were incorrect. As Ian Griffiths kindly points out in comments in Julie's post, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Vista ISO image. I said it did “weird things” when it is doing completly the right thing and not opening with WinRAR which doesn't support the UDF file system and it is telling me to do the right thing. My apologies on my incorrect information.

Given Ian's success on a ThinkPad T43p with an ATIX600, I just installed Vista 5270 on a ThinkPad T42 which has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 instead. All the drivers installed except that one but I was able to install it using the Device Manager and Windows Update. The ATI Mobility Radeon Driver is totally supported in Vista. The only bummer is that there is no LDDM driver for it even in the CATALYST Drivers on the ATI Vista site so I can't get Glass. Otherwise, on this machine, Vista is performing perfectly. The new glowing ORB instead of the Start Menu is totally cool as is Windows Media Player 11. The comments on the UAP still apply though.