| Vista's problem was spotty hardware support.  I had Vista on two different systems.  One was rock solid stable, the other was constantly having issues.  
 As a general rule (no 100%, but true of most of the anecdotal evidence I saw), it had a much harder time with notebooks than desktops.
 
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