Should you buy a laptop with Windows XP or Vista?

Microsoft's Windows Vista is a beautiful piece of operating system. It's filled with tons of visual effects to keep your eyes cooled. However, it does come with a lot of headaches.

First of all, there are many softwares that are not yet compatible with Vista. My computer with Vista premium crashed after I installed McAfee antivirus. This antivirus used to work fine on XP professional. Moreover, many essential softwares needed for my job stopped working on vista. To add to the problem, some of my computer accessories stopped working as well since the correct drivers were not available for Vista.

In conclusion, Vista would be a good choice for you if you don't do too much computing and don't need to use a wide variety of softwares. However, Windows XP Professional SP2 is a much better choice for the rest of the people.

As for laptops, Windows XP will run superb with just 1 GIG of RAM. However, Vista Premium requires a good 2 GB of RAM for fast performance. Since laptops with 1 GB is cheaper than 2 GB, by about $100, it's a good choice to switch to windows xp rather than vista.