Been using CS 3 with Vista on Gateways for several months with absolutely no problems with the CS 3 program.

Regarding Vista though, we have it on 2 "new" machines - a laptop and a desktop. The laptop works great. The desktop is having sleep problems. Some times when you sleep it, it comes back on it's own, other times it won't wake up, other times the montior won't wake up but the hard drive does on and on....it's been a royal PAIN. Some type of power management problem that no one apparently can fix. Would like to toss the thing in the river. (although the 24 inch montior is to die for!) We had to buy a new desktop because our hard drive died, otherwise we would not have. But that being said our lap top is fine as it doesn't have the same type of sleep/monitor/power mangement thing like the desktop. With every update, we hope they fix it, but Microsoft hasn't yet. From what one reads it PC World they aren't coming out with a service pack for a while yet....guess they want us all to suffer. Other than the sleep problems, we've not had any issues. We attempted to use that Microsoft Mail or whatever it was called and that was horrible. We gave up after reading everything on the internet about it and making attempts to get it to work and installed Outlook onto it instead.

While our laptop is perfect, my sisters new Dell with VISTA has been big problems. She isn't into photos or scrapbooking, I just mean it has problems. On-site repair was there last week and they are waiting for him to call again. The repair person told her last week that Vista in general has been a big pain. He didn't think the repairs would help her, but to give them a try. Said he fully expected to hear from her again.....which happened of course.....She thinks she just has a lemon.

While our laptop is fine, if one didn't need a new computer, I'd wait awhile also. The start up on them appears to be slower also which I don't care for.