I just bought my laptop a few weeks ago. Yes is came with Vista so my laptop is compatible. I noticed at startup, it's really slow. Let me explain - I type my password in when I try to log on and from there, I just get to a blank screen. It takes about a little over a minute just to get to my startup screen. From there, everything is fast to load. My internet connection is instant and yahoo messenger already logs in. My sidebar is already there. I'm just wondering why whenever I try to log in after I type in my password, a blank screen just sits there for a little over a minute.