Vista or XP, First Mac, Future Law Student...

[clevin]

Talk about the future, and suggest an 8 years old OS? please, easy answer: Vista

resource hog? how? Vista need just as much of memory a Leopard, your MB runs leopard fine, and your MB runs vista fine.

Less stable? how?

Not to mention the security measures in Vista, windows search, DX10 (probably useless with a MB tho, lol), much improved UI and eye candy.

 

[Cyroceon]

Talk about the future, and suggest an 8 years old OS? please, easy answer: Vista

resource hog? how? Vista need just as much of memory a Leopard, your MB runs leopard fine, and your MB runs vista fine.

Less stable? how?

Not to mention the security measures in Vista, windows search, DX10 (probably useless with a MB tho, lol), much improved UI and eye candy.

Again, I've already picked up XP from Newegg a little while ago. However, in response to your comment, I don't think you are taking my needs into consideration. Like others have said, for some law school exam programs and other ambiguous items, I would rather have the 8 year old, tried and true OS. Thanks though.

 

[protozoa]

I guess Vista would be my pick

Lots of people talk smack about Vista, but I sort of like it. Three of the seven PC laptops in my family run Vista (although both of the ones I regularly use are XP). From the little I've played around with Vista, it's definitely a better looking OS [here is where people usually chime in and say "that's because M$ was trying to copy ideas from the Mac].

I admit that I'd be sort of torn on what to get if I were buying a new PC right now. On one hand, I'm comfortable with XP (particularly since it pretty much reminds me of all the Windows versions that have come before it). A second reason is that XP would offer a distinctly different OS environment than what you were running on the Mac.

On the other hand, why buy the old stuff when something newer is out there? You're just hastening the day when you will really be out-dated, and have issues finding tech support if you need it. Who wants to be the guy in the internet cafe running Windows that's three generations old?

 

[cohibadad]

Not to mention the security measures in Vista

cancel or allow gets old fast but the most annoying part is the whole screen dimming and forcing you to choose before it allows you to use your system again. Bad design. Turn off UAC and security = XP, leave it on and get used to the dimmer. Cancel or allow? Cancel.

 

[brop52]

File sharing for windows is terrible. I just spent all night doing it, bricked my router, and I realized you can't share your iTunes music because it's in your documents and settings folder which you can't share no matter what you do.

As for XP vs. Vista. I do think compatibility is an issue, but I do like the look of vista over XP. Of course it hogs resources, but just make sure you have the RAM to supply it.

And yes turning off the cancel/allow is simple.

 

[heatmiser]

The guy has already bought an XP cd, so it's all gravy from here.