I bought 2GB or RAM the other day as I started hitting the 1GB (the amount I got when I bought my laptop 3 years ago) limit quite often lately.

Considering my previous good experience with the beta and RC versions of Vista on this same laptop, I decided to go for Vista as I was planning on rearranging my partitions anyway.

What a mistake. I lost the whole day trying to make the following work:

1. Wireless. This was a deal-breaker in the end. Even with the March 2007 drivers from Dell site I was not able to reliably connect to my access point.
2. Speedstep just did not work. Turns out that Dell is probably to blame here because random people on the Internet report that their old laptops’ Speedstep started working after the BIOS upgrade from the laptop manufacturer. Obviously, Dell is giving us the nudge in the direction of a new laptop purchase here.
3. Modem did not and will never work. I think Microsoft is to blame here, but it doesn’t matter – I need modem very rarely, but when I do need it, I need it badly.

Who knows, maybe I would have discovered even more incompatibilities, but I gave up and reverted back to XP.