I took the plunge on the weekend and installed Vista Ultimate on my new ASUS F3Jv laptop.  The installation went smoothly with no hassles whatsoever.

Installing software and finding drivers was a different experience.  Some pieces installed, others installed with warnings and others would not.  The whole process is detailed below.

Graphics Drivers

The default driver allowed me to run at a maximum resolution of 1400x 980, and I could have probably lived with it for a month or so if I absolutely had to.  The NVidia GeForce GO 7600 drivers aren't shipped with the RTM release, and I couldn't find them anywhere on the ASUS site.  I did end up finding a solution here, and I'm now running in Aero Glass at 1680x1050.

Development Tools / Work Related Software 

Office Professional 2007, InfoPath 2007 and Project 2007.

All installed with no issues, although I couldn't activate for some reason.

Visual Studio.NET 2005

Installed with "known compatibility issues".  The list is faily comprehensive, but I haven't run into any of the listed scenarios yet.

SQL Server 2005 (and SQL Express 2005)

Again, these both installed with "compatility issues".  I was directed to a link to the SQL Server SP2 release candidate, but I haven't installed it yet.

Composite UI Application Block (December 2005 C#)

My first failure!  The installer fails with the following error which I am yet to resolve. "An unexpected error occurred generating the Visual Studio Solution files.  You may have to manually create solution files for the projects you have installed."  Problem is, the installer fails and you don't get the chance to manually create anything.

Solution to Composite UI Application Block Installer Failure

1. Create a new "cmd" file called install.cmd or equivalent.
2. Add the command "msiexec /i {path}" where path is the fully qualified path to the location of CAB_CS.msi.
3. Right Click on the command file and select "Run as Administrator" 

 Guidance Automation Extensions & Guidance Automation Toolkit

The extensions installed fine, however the Guidance Automation Toolkit fails with the error: "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package.  This may indicate a problem with this package.  The error code is 2869." I haven't looked into resolving this yet.

Solution to Guidance Automation Toolkit Installer Failure

1. Create a new "cmd" file called install.cmd or equivalent.
2. Add the command "msiexec /i {path}" where path is the fully qualified path to the location of GuidanceAutomationToolkit.msi.
3. Right Click on the command file and select "Run as Administrator" 

UPDATE: I've since found and installed the IIS 6.0 compatibility features.  I don't know if this would have made any difference or not.  If the "Run as Administrator"
install still gives the same error, install the IIS 6.0 Compatibility features and try again.

ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, November CTP and AJAX Controls

All installed ok, with the exception of not being able to create the Virtual directories in IIS 7.0.  I've manually created them and it's now fine.

UPDATE: I've since found and installed the IIS 6.0 compatibility features.  I don't know if this would have made any difference or not.

Windows SDK

Installed fine.

Visual Studio.NET Extensions for WCF, WPF and WWF (2 separate downloads)

Both packages installed fine.

JetBrains ReSharper 2.0.2 (VS.NET 2005)

The installer works fine as long as you right click and run as administrator.  The VS.NET patch still takes forever!

Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8

Had to download the latest version of Acrobat reader for Vista (Beta) 7.0.8, and this installed fine.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0

Installed fine.

ASUS Utilities

LifeFrame2 - Installed OK

Splendid Utility - Installed OK

Power4 Gear - Installed OK, but doesn't run after restart.