Microsoft delays launch of Vista

On reading the news that microsoft was to delay the lanch of its Vista operating system i imdatly thought about how annoying that was. im off to uni in september and was going to buy a new laptop inorder to get a neww computor with the new vista operating system. But what do i do now? How do i go out and buy a new laptop in september which i need to do and then 4 months later be left with a out of date operting system or the extortionat price to which they will charge for vista when not bundled. Also what specs do i need will they know by then? Actually will there be laptops avalible with the required specs given the amount of RAM and procesor XP needs vista will probly require 512 of ram and a a 1ghz procesor just to run. and u know it will still crash and be full of bugs and security holes. In the Years since Microsoft reeased XP you would hope they built Vista from the ground up but u know that it will be based on the same old flawed windows we are used to. Pehaps thats the answere to my problem , ill get linux based macvhine (not a MAC the users are to fanatical and upgrdes are too expencive) btw sory bout the underline i dont know whats happening.

BBC News Microsoft delays launch of Vista