Vista or MacBookPro - what to blame?

I have been running Vista on my MacBook Pro for about a year and I must say it has been a very painful experiene, with lots of problems which seem related to drivers etc. and based on discussions in different forums, I seem to be far from the only one. Now, as I am considering to buy a new laptop, I am thinking about what to blame here, is it so that Vista just ***** no matter of what hardware it runs on, or that the combination Mac + Windows just isn't there yet? As I work 99% in windows, I might consider not getting a Mac at all for the next laptop, but at the same time, I am an Apple lover and the MacBook Pro just kick everyone elses but right now.
/pJ

I actually tried to install Windows XP last night, but what was possible with BootCamp 1.4 just doesn't seem to work at all in BootCamp 2.0 (as described by numerous threads on the internet, search for "hal.dll") so I had to install Vista again. The irony of this is that although that has proven that Windows on a Mac is actually even worse than Windows on a PC, it also increase the demand for a Mac to be able to use OS X at least sometimes to get away from the Windows ****. So now I am kind of lost again
/pJ

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