Lucky Day
Daywatch
Well we have a problems with Vista thread.
I'd just be careful to make sure your hardware is compatible. Most of the stuff made in the last year should be no problem, just make sure you can get past the 4gb limit and get the 64 bit version of Vista.
There are multiple advantages to Vista over XP at this point including
native 64 bit support
much better security
everything new is being made with it in mind
100 other things Prime Junta could point out
To me XP is getting long in the tooth. It doesn't support RAID very well and external drivers require a floppy drive.
Drivers were an issue at launch for sure but with all the controversy even my 4 year old, bottom end Samsung 1430 printer now has Vista drivers. I think Microsoft has being paying companies to write them because a lot of companies took advantage of XP to obsolete their older equipment in spite of being completely functional.
So in that sense, Vista has become a lot less evil than XP.
I'd just be careful to make sure your hardware is compatible. Most of the stuff made in the last year should be no problem, just make sure you can get past the 4gb limit and get the 64 bit version of Vista.
There are multiple advantages to Vista over XP at this point including
native 64 bit support
much better security
everything new is being made with it in mind
100 other things Prime Junta could point out
To me XP is getting long in the tooth. It doesn't support RAID very well and external drivers require a floppy drive.
Drivers were an issue at launch for sure but with all the controversy even my 4 year old, bottom end Samsung 1430 printer now has Vista drivers. I think Microsoft has being paying companies to write them because a lot of companies took advantage of XP to obsolete their older equipment in spite of being completely functional.
So in that sense, Vista has become a lot less evil than XP.