It may have been difficult to pick out the other campaign war waging on under all of those presidential and local political ads in the U.S TV network shows. It's a war that has been going on for several years but has just recently started gaining ferocious advertising attention. While I didn't publicly proclaim my political stance for this past election I will certainly stand up for this snowballing campaign blitz: I'm a PC!

Yes I'm referring to that age old battle of PCs vs. Macs. And whether you're running Vista, XP, 98 or NT be sure to share your love for your PC at Microsoft's Are you a PC?

As for my own account of working with Vista 64-bit, for nearly three months now, I have to say it really isn't bad at all. In fact, the worst performance I have had with it has only been with Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword. Despite all listed fixes and tweaks to Vista the game just crashes straight to the desktop for unknown reasons. CPU temp never rises above 45 C and case temps stay stable around 29 C so I know it's not a heat issue. No other program has given me trouble to date at least. My only other complaint is a considerable lack of support for 64-bit web browsers in the area of web tools. Do I recommend that every PC lover go upgrade to Vista right away? Heck no! Stick with the OS you're comfortable with and have had the most success with. Only upgrade when your PC has to have an OS upgrade in order to play those wonderful Games for Windows. Speaking of Games for Windows, I'd love to see an aggressive advertising blitz for PCs along the lines of "Hey Mac, can you play THIS?"