The Dell Studio 15 laptop arrived about 5 days ago and was a snap to get it up and running. Unfortunately, Dell had it loaded with lots of useless bloat-ware, but after a little uninstalling it was cleaned up, looking lean and running fast. I did keep the "Dell Dock" which was created by Stardock and adds a little Mac OS X feel to the desktop. Also kept the "Dell Video Chat" by SightSpeed and proceeded to have a fun video chat with Rachel who is in Baton Rouge, LA with her new Dell Studio 15 laptop.
The built-in speakers are kind of weak sounding but the ear-buds sound cool. I didn't expect much from the fingerprint reader but ironically it has become one of my favorite features on this box. Logging into my profile and even my web-based email and other ID/password protected accounts is just a swipe of the finger - hope I don't eventually forget the passwords, though.
So far my impression of Vista is mostly good, at least it works well on this machine, but we did discover that sync-ing a Palm device is difficult to impossible because Palm is lagging behind with updates for 64-bit PC's. I suspect there are probably more issues ahead, especially running older apps on this OS.