Getting rid of Vista

Hi, im a fairly experienced windows xp user, and... vista is horrible. I have never had so many small and large and extremely annoying problems on a new computer... Not to mention the seemingly useless applications that are killing the performance of this laptop... it feels like a gameboy sometimes...

So my question is, if i want to install windows xp on this laptop, would it be any different than installing windows xp on a desktop?

I want to use my windows xp CD to format this hard drive and install windows xp, would there be any inherent problems with doing this?