vincevincevince - 11:48 pm on May 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

...the brand and model of the Vista laptop. ...brand and model of that "new printer". ...name and versions of the software packages installed in the Vista laptop.

I think the worry here is that it shouldn't matter which specific brand and model you use. The expectation is that Vista is technically more capable than XP; and if that is so it should outperform XP on all hardware. Software slowing down Vista should not slow it any more than when under XP, and hardware even if poorly implemented should fare better under Vista than under XP.

I do appreciate that many members here have been bought over to the dark side by slices of spare IBM cash...