Quote Originally Posted by Xzin
The only other drawback with Vista is that it is Vista.

More overhead, little to no compelling upgrades, worse performance. Useless Aero interface. Annoying and thus not very useful security features. Driver problems. 64 bit problems. No downgrade path.

In my opinion, it is still not ready for prime time. And will not be for at least 1.5 - 2 years.

But YMMV.
Same reason that I haven't upgraded from XP Pro to Vista. There are too many bugs and not enough good reasons to upgrade. If you are going through a computer store that is more customer friendly they should allow you the option of getting XP instead, I know I chose that option when I got my latest laptop.