I just had to uninstall Windows Vista from my Dell Latitude D410 laptop because it simply ran far too slowly. XP in all its glory is now back up and running. For those of you still pondering over installing Vista, if you have a computer with specs:

• 512mb ram
• 1.72ghz Pentium M processor
• Onboard graphics

then don’t bother, because it won’t work! It installed fine but then ran so slowly. If it matters for you, then Vista also seems to be incapable of supporting WiFi at the moment. I tried with both the inbuilt Intel Centrino chip and also an external wifi card. Both didn’t work, and the external card produced a blue screen error.

Since I’m not prepared to install it on my main machine at the moment, it looks like I’ll be waiting for the final release to come out before I can properly use Vista.