Oh, I'm not comparing it directly to XP in terms of functionality. I know all about Vista, and how it's completely different and blah blah... I got that. However, when XP boots mad quick, and Vista takes 3 and a half minutes to even throw up the splash screen, then yeah, I start to compare them to some degree at that point. It's not about XP vs Vista, though. It's about, which one is more suitable for me?
Vista has its good points, I won't dog it when I feel as though it deserves credit. But at the same token, I've had it crash randomly considerably more often than XP - and this isn't my laptop specific.
It has its good points and its bad, just like any other OS. But, like I said before, at the end of the day I have to go with what does the best job... and that's why Vista is no longer on my laptop.