I haven't had much problem with Vista on my laptop to be honest, especially after I disabled some of its more annoying features. It's a memory hog, sure, but it hasn't been too bad for me. For most stuff, compatibility hasn't been a problem, and I'd say my laptop's performance is pretty much what it should be - at least when compared to my desktop which runs XP and has somewhat better specs.
I honestly don't see how it's better than XP, but neither is it any worse, at least in my experience so far. It's absolutely not worth the "upgrade", but I've never been tempted to install XP on my laptop either.
And my laptop runs SHIII and SHIV fine on Vista, too. What more could I ask for - besides some time to actually play them?
