Well, I heard that SP1 fixes the majority of these issues, so I decided to borrow my Friend's copy. After installing Vista and Service Pack 1 it seemed like the rumors were true! Vista runs very nicely on my computer now. my "rating" is 2.0, but Trying the "Aero Experience" I didn't see much of a slowdown with it enabled. I'm not too keen on the User Access Control shite, but that was disabled within the first few minutes of installation.
overall I give Windows Vista four stars out of five.
This should prove i'm not a MS hater.