I agree, vista is garbage!! I switched to a mac because of it. OS X is by far and away better than vista. I have a desktop pc with vista at home and it's only use is for converting videos and a file/print server for the home network. Everything else is done on my mac laptop.

I've been tempted to wipe vista altogether and trying out ubunto, but have been unable to source out software for ripping my dvd collection and converting it into itunes ready videos.