New Toshiba laptop (U200-ST2092) and Vista Home Basic 1st impressions

My new laptop came, a customized U200-ST2092. This thing is as light as they get. I'm not digging to much on the 12.1" widescreen, but that seems to be all that is available. I am glad that the fan output is on the side and not (like all Dell laptops) on the bottom. The hard drive is pretty exposed on the bottom, I would hate to see it near any water!

Starting up for the first time had me run through Vista installation and then promptly blue screened. It was beautiful. After the initial BSOD, it started up fine and jumped into Vista. Without a whole lot going on, my Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory are pretty maxed out. It could be the amount of extra programs running in the background or just the bloat of windows products. I mean, just as Microsoft finally gets their act together and releases XP SP2 they gotta throw this OS onto every unfortunate consumer who would like a new computer.

I guess now I just have to decide what distribution of Linux to install over Vista...stay tuned.