A few months ago I bought a new laptop with Vista on it. With the hardware it had, it should have been reasonably peppy (with XP at least). It was a pig, a hog, and took forever to boot up, to shut down, to do anything. I sold it quick.
Since we have been using XP for 6 years without any problems, in the last two months we have bought three new XP machines from Dell Outlet at significant discounts, two desktops and one laptop. We are good to go through at least 2014. And when computer replacement time comes up again, if M-soft’s latest is another piece of crap, then we are finished with Gates and company. At that time, we would move to Mac, or Linux, or?
But we figured the wise thing now, since XP does everything we need it to do, was to hardware-up for some years to come, which we have done.
You bought the wrong laptop! I am a computer professional and I own a HP with a dual Intel chip and dual boot it to both XP and Vista. It runs 50% to 100% faster with Vista and starts up and shuts down within 10-15 seconds. I am so tired of people that make bad computing choices or who don’t know what they are doing badmouthing Vista. It is a very good operating system and it is not getting a fair shake. FYI I do not work for Microsoft or make any money from them.