New PC - Vista or XP ???

[Pierscoe1]

Right.. I'm about to order a new PC, and have the no-cost option of either XP or Vista...

which should I choose??

I was about to go for Vista, but have reports from a couple of colleagues of major compatibility issues..
e.g. Neither PhotoshopCS nor 3DsMax 9 work with Vista...

is this true? is there a compatibility list somewhere??

any help would be great, as ideally I'd like to order the PC tomorrow..

Thanks

Piers

[TheCarpetCleaner]

XP at the moment.

Had Vista for 6 months, too many bugs for a new (and especially preinstalled OEM build) for my liking.

When they bring the service pack out to fix the errors that they deny exist but hint at fixing anyway, I will probably reinstall it again...

[sstein]

XP

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Stuart

[TurricanII]

Buy Vista then obtain an XP install CD and intall that if you wish. You are allowed (by the provsions of Microsoft licencing) to downgrade Vista to XP. You can update to Vista later for no extra cost when it will run your apps (i.e. when the app vendors release a fixed version and chatge you for it).

Edited by TurricanII on Wednesday 19th December 00:04

[superlightr]

In a similar dillemma (although dont tell my wife abou emma). Used xp a lot and happy with it. Use XP at home for games. Wife uses Vista. Was very sceptical about vista. Using Vista busines for work now and very happy with it.

Not had any compatibility with the work software as they do vista tested software. Clearly it depends on the software you are going to run. Lots of nice options in it.

Vista is/will be the way forward, and I would sooner get a grips with it sooner than later. My next home pc will be vista.

[arcturus]

Been using Vista Business for over 6 months here and I like it. It runs all of Adobe CS3 with no problems. Get plenty of memory though. 1gb minimum, 2Gb much better.