[LilyBean]

I bought a Toshiba Laptop last October with Vista installed. I absolutely hate it. I am waiting for my warranty to expire, and then am taking it in and getting XP put on it.

The damn thing will not run my camera software, or much else for that matter. It is outta here.

LilyBean

[Bubba_Leroy]

I have replaced all of my office and home computers during the past six months specifically so I can keep running XP as long as possible. I am hoping that I won't need to replace a computer again until the second service pack has been released for the operating system after Vista.

Vista is like Windows ME. Avoid it and wait for it to be replaced.

[CurlyDave]

I bought a Toshiba Laptop last October with Vista installed. I absolutely hate it. I am waiting for my warranty to expire, and then am taking it in and getting XP put on it.

Now you know that Mac owners can install the OS themselves, right in the privacy of their own home...

[BoilermakerCAengineerguy]

For what it's worth... Our XP desktop died a few months ago, so we needed to get a new home computer. We ended up buying my wife a new Dell laptop with Vista installed. We've had it for about 6 weeks -- and we haven't had any problems with it.

-Found our wireless network right away; no problems getting online
-Installed our old Lexmark inkjet printer driver; no problems
-Installed Open Office (free) software; no problems
-Installed our digital camera driver; no problems

My wife uses the computer for e-mail, desktop publishing, instant messaging, digital photo management, watching online video, etc. -- and she loves it. I've used it on several occasions, and it seems to work great.

I was initially concerned about getting it (due to the horror stories I had heard about Vista) -- but to date I am very happy with the purchase.

The Treasure Fine