we needed another laptop that i can take to work and leave there in my toolbox. i just wanted excel and word, to keep records of part numbers and references. but the sony store had this very cool pink vaio so of course that's the one i got. you're stuck with vista no matter what but i already have it on the other laptop so it's not that big a deal.

wrong!!!

it's got the new 64-bit vista - even suckier and less compatible with anything i wanted to use the new laptop for.

anybody else run into this? can anything be done?