windows Vista or XP

[Bakerstone]

Which is better Windows Xp or Vista? I heard Vista got lots of bugs?

[SupraPSU]

Windows Vista runs alot smoother in my opinion.

[rakerbill]

Originally Posted by Bakerstone

Which is better Windows Xp or Vista? I heard Vista got lots of bugs?

I had Vista Home Premium installed on a self built system, and I had a LOT of bugs to work out in the beginning.
I was able to download most of the patches I needed for the software, and hardware I had in my system. It ran great, but it ate a LOT of resources, and memory. So if you want to run Vista, be prepared to run a minimum of 2 gigs of memory. Mine at idle was using 53% of my memory, and to me that is a lot.
I am now using XP Pro, and at idle it is only using 28% of my memory, and it flies. But I have 4 gigs of Ballistix Tracer memory in dual channel.
Vista is awesome, I really liked it, but it takes a lot of patience to get it up and running good.
I don't know anything about it now that there is a service pack for it.
I hope this helps you.

[CH0MP3R]

I run Vista Ultimate and it's fine as long as you have a decent system. If you're comp is an old clunker with a Pentium III and 512MB of ram then yeah, Vista will crawl...but on most systems build within the last 1.5 years or so you should be fine. It's a solid OS, but it's definitely not the leap over XP that XP was over Windows 98/ME.

[javkiller]

Vista is better, BUT you NEED to have at leat 2gb RAM otherwise you will wating your xp back in notime.

[coco23]

xp is a legend i prefer this one for now

[accron]

I have trouble playing online games, loading java and accessing gmail with Vista.

[mbrain]

I want to get a new PC & want to get Windows XP instead of Vista is it still available with Dell?????