I recently bought a Dell Vostro 1400 notebook with XP Professional. I love it!! Dell still offers XP as an option with quite a few PCs. From what I have heard about Vista I would not touch it with a 10ft pole until they get to Service Pack 2 (I think they are just getting ready to release SP1). I am no techie but I know some techies and all I hear about Vista is that it is bloated (10x as much as XP) and slow relative to any given set of hardware, with many bugs and glitches.....
>>(I think they are just getting ready to release SP1)
Technet subscribers can already get it. I’m thinking about getting it from a friend, and seeing what it does to this laptop. I’ve considered backing off to XP, if it doesn’t clean a few things up.