Vista, Dell, and AMD

We buy exclusively Dell PCs at work and apparently they are trying to get AMD chips on their business desktops. Today my boss gave me an Optiplex 740 that Dell gave us to try out. So far I've updated XP (they sent it with the 32 bit version), installed AV, and put it in our Active Directory. I also used gparted to resize the XP partition to 75GB to install Vista Enterprise (64bit). I'll use this blog to chronicle my testing of this PC and a place to take notes I run across in my use of technology in general, including Vista, Office, XP, Linux, Macs, and whatever else I happen to find.