i recently got a new laptop (like 2 weeks ago) vista looks quite well, compared to the interface of xp. sadly, i dont like it in terms of its new interface. i dont know, its just the little things that bug me. although i've never used a mac before, i think i would rather use it. also... just three days ago my laptop crashed and i spent two hours trying to fix it. nothing works except the purging all of my files and cleaning out my hard drive. after one more hour everything i had was gone (at least there wasn't much to begin with so i wasn't too fazed). The "repair wizard" explained it as wiping the "slate clean" and starting over.. meaning when i turned my computer on again it was the same as when i first got it. THEN.. a day later it crashed again! So i redid the whole process and lost everything once again. that really turned me off of Vista but fortunately i haven't had another crash (hope it wont happen lol)... but needless to say, i still prefer xp even if its not as "pretty" as vista.