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Laptops generally run Vista better than home PCs, mostly because the laptop manufacturer has gone in and added all their own little programs and fixed the basic errors. I.E. my laptop is by HP, so when HP installed HP Health Check (among other things), they disabled everything in Vista that got in their way, so now those features don't get in MY way.
Unfortunately, laptop manufacturers sometimes also write their own drivers for video card, sound card, etc. to allow for certain kinds of shared memory use (since it's not really feasible to have high-memory video/sound cards in a laptop). That means...no updates. Like, ever. Occasionally, the manufacturer will be nice and put out updates for like the first year, and then your laptop quickly slides toward uselessness because it can no longer get the updates needed for new programs.
