XP Home or Vista Home Premium?

Shadowhunter

Shadowhunter

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I'm trying to decide which OS I should get when I buy my new rig (in the sig)

I don't really want to have to buy Vista a year from now when I couldv'e just bought it from the start...but I'm pretty happy with XP.

I'm kinda leaning towards Vista because DX10 and everything, but will my system be able to run Vista good enough? :confused:
 
The card isn't so much of a problem if the NVidia updates are available. 2gb of Kingston Hyper X or Corsair xms series DDR2 memory will work. That will even see an improvement in XP. The option of dual booting Vista along with XP is one other thing to consider. That will depend on how drive space you generally use up with just one version of Windows installed. Current softwares are the problem more then anything as well as video and sound drivers.
 
Stick with XP for a while. It is more well known and by using vista you won't get as much help if something goes wrong. You will have to pay to upgrade ram and cpu
 
home premium is great and you wont need to upgarde anything I got a 7300gt and used 1 gig kingston value select (upgraded to corsair xms2) and it ran fine
 
At this point in time well over 90% of XP's "bugs" have already been worked out and everything like updates and plentiful drive support is easy as pie to find. Working with Vista here the initial driver updates released for different hardwares still lacks adequate supprt. Expect at least a full year to start seeing the support needed to materialize provided Vista doesn't simply turn out to be another MS flop like ME was?

Don't run Vista as the primary OS if you have a number of older programs that are XP ready not Vista ready. Only use it as a "secondary" not primary OS at this time. XP Home works just as well as XP Pro for the home user. When you look in stores at the present time you won't find Vista softwares! They are still trying to clear out XP capable programs.
 
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