Help me decide on a laptop :O

[MetalMilitia]

Don't worry about Vista. If you're buying it with a new machine you're unlikely to have any problems whatsoever. Most of the vocal Vista haters are just pissed off that they need to upgrade their 5 year old machine or pissed off that Microsoft have the audacity to release a brand new operating system with a few minor problems, the majority of which most people won't even notice.

Either way, the positives of Vista far outweigh the negatives in my opinion.

I'm not sure what confused ZBF for months; everything works in more-or-less exactly the same way. In a lot of cases things are actually far more intuitive and user friendly than XP.