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I don't like Vista despite having it on one of my home PC's. Things that should be easy and straightforward become an excercise in research and fault finding.
Explorer is changed and simply doesn't preform as easily or efficiently, despite looking flashy.
Microsoft have gone out of their way to make things look different and operate in a different fashion, so much so that it's often more difficult to do things that were simple with XP.
Try doing a backup to a shared resource on an XP machine with simple file sharing, you can drag and drop files from explorer, but Vista decides you need a user and password to access the same simple shared resource for backups.
The only plus I can find is that 64 Bit ultimate runs PS very quickly, making the most of Vista's extended ram capabilities.
Rather than being the Vanguard of operating systems Vista is IMO the Mudguard, shiny on top and crap underneath.
The first thing I did when I got my last laptop was remove Vista and install XP pro.
If you do go with Vista immediately disable UAC, it's an absolute PITA and while you're at it disable auto update (it will still do some updates despite being disabled) as it is not uncommon for the updates to kill the OS.
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