Have you tried Windows Vista? Out of curiosity, my husband installed Vista on my laptop this morning to find out how it fares. My Celeron-based IBM ThinkPad was nearly choked to death running Vista in all its eye-candy glory. Since day one Windows Vista has received mixed reviews from the public. I think I can relate to the fuss because while my laptop runs Windows XP smoothly, Vista slowed it down to a crawl. My laptop memory usage went up by more than 50% compared to XP. Well, I grant you Vista does look slick and fancy but apart from that, I see no reason why I would migrate from XP even if I buy a top-of-the-range laptop today.