still dont see the vista issue...

Im running vista on 2 machines... a meaty HP laptop with full aero goodness and an old tablet PC with 768mb ram and a 900mhz ULV Centrino setup (obviously without aero)

the HP is fine.. nips along as fast as an XP machine, every now and then it has its wobbles, but so did my previous XP laptop...

The tablet too, once its booted is fine... fast enough, stable enough, and the Tablet interface is head and shoulders above the Tablet XP offering :)

time people moved on... I remember a similar sort of reluctance to shift to XP...