Quote Originally Posted by Tran
There's a laptop with Vista OS already??
I've seen quite a few some weeks ago in the local electronics store, Dell has them as well.

The screen could be some Vista preparation thing running at the first Vista start, for example it benchmarks your hardware and rates it accordingly.
If you're unlucky, the laptop was just overheating during the benchmark, in that case I'd recommend a completely different laptop since that shouldn't happen with modern laptops.