Not that this is news to anyone -but my laptop runs Vista and it sucks big time.
The main reason it sucks so hard is that it can’t even be relied on to do the normal, regular, day-to-day computer stuff I need it for.
Sure its slow, that I could live with if it was stable. But left alone for more than 30 minutes and there is a 90% chance that when I return it will have frozen up. I will need to hard power it down and boot it back up. This cannot be good for the disk. Also - about 5% of the time when I am browsing the file system using Windows Explorer, explorer itself crashes - the program! WTF!

I use this machine for development and its configured with all the ssh keys I need for my subversion repositories and for communicating with ec2 - but I am very seriously considering moving over to Ubuntu. Just to get something solid to work with.