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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhamin" data-source="post: 3468016" data-attributes="member: 1023">As for Vista vs. XP, a couple things to keep in mind...-Vista is a "big" changeover in OS's, don't think of this as 95->98 or 2000->XP, think 3.1->95 or NT->2000.  This means that alot of your old software won't work as well.  A bunch of stuff has changed "under the hood" and software needs to change to reflect that.  The real benefit of Vista won't show up until the 3rd party manufacturers put out Vista versions of their software and the hardware guys put out Vista drivers so you don't have to kludge drivers across OSes.  (98 drivers don't work all that well in 2000, yet people expect XP drivers to work in Vista?)-On the other hand, the hardware and software you buy three years from now will assume you have Vista.  Many of the games coming down the pipe in 12-18 months will need Vista.-A bunch of the PCs that are being sold right down do not meet the reccomended Vista requirements.I was into Retail PC support when 95 came out, and almost everything people are saying about Vista vs. XP is what they said about 95 vs. 3.1.  Yes, it takes up more resources, yes your 5 year old programs don't work seamlessly.  At this point there doesn't seem to be much of an upside.  When the first flash/disk hybrid harddrives and DirextX10 video cards come out Vista will seem like a better idea.If your main concern is that all the stuff you have now works with no upgrades, then absolutely go with XP.If your main concern is that your new PC will take advantage of all the new toys that come out over the next 5 years, you will have to make the transition to Vista.</blockquote>

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