There will be users out there who love it and users who will hate it. I got my computer with Vista pre-installed, my wife loves it. Working in IT, I get users asking all the time. I hardly have a problem with Vista in general, but after using Vista for a year and XP since it was in Beta (as well as troubleshooting), XP is the winner in my book. My xp desktop will print to this same system flawlessly. If I print from a webpage to a networked printer installed on a server, it errors out, every time. Network printing to a print server is impossible. I have used the 32 bit of Vista on my laptop for about a year (at least) and noticed major issues. I think that you sacrifice alot by switching to an OS which I think all you REALLY see is the visual aspects of. primarily because the 64 bit models take advantage of the 3G+ memory.

If you said XP x86 or Vista 圆4, I would have said the Vista version. Vista in my opinion is a major memory hog, beyond the fact that you have a much capable computer to handle it. Vista was a launch to implicate and produce the effects that Apple and Linux has. Microsoft is pushing for the SP1 of Vista before the release of XP SP3 to try and drive the consumer base to Vista. XP SP3 is the bug and security enhancements that Vista is without the Eyecandy. Personal Opinion of the OS with some comparison truths: (I personally don't have any preference between Vista and XP.

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