Vista or XP for my D630

Hey,
Im gunna buy a D630 after graduation and was wondering, when I order it should I get Vista or XP? Im gunna be using it like a normal college kid. SOme video, music, prolly majoring in some sort of business, or management.

 

I would get Vista. I've had little to no problems with it on my D630 and the few that I do have (some occasional issues resuming from sleep) I expect to go away after SP1 is released in mid April.

 

Vista. By the time you graduate, the work scene will have caught up with Vista, and you will be all set.

In any case, either is a great OS.

Regards,
Paolo

 

Were the machine my own and a choice were offered, I'd go with XP. I bought a desktop with Vista and gave it a shot, but just didn't like it and so erased the drive and installed Ubuntu. Note, please, that I didn't say anything was wrong with Vista - I simply didn't care for the OS.

As stated above, Vista may improve and "the work scene" may well catch up making it a better choice for you. In any case, good luck.

 

XP...there are some university applications and programs that you may need, that are not compatible with Vista. You need to worry about your needs now, not your needs 4 years down the road when Vista plays nice with everything.

Vista will be around for a while, XP may not be here much longer. Personally, get XP.

 

Get vista.
If you are geeky enough , you can install the xp on the different partition

 

For that matter, if you're "geeky" enough, learn on VM's and install any flavor of whatever OS you want.

Fun stuff.

Regards,
Paolo

 

With SP1 around the corner, I'd say get Vista.

But as Greg said, make sure you consider your needs now, and what your college of choice requires.

 

Well, you can get XP now. Use Linux if you want to as well (useful at times I must admit), and somewhere down the road upgrade to Vista if you want to. Or dual boot, or whatever.

But start with XP first, play it safe.

Most colleges offer academic discounts on OS's and software, so an upgrade to Vista in the future may cost as little as $30 for Vista Ultimate (like mine ).

 

My University offers Vista Ultimate x86 and x64 for $8.00

Pretty nice, I must say.

 

Haha thats a great tip.. VMWare is easy..install is, make some tweaks and vola! u can install any god foresaken OS in the world!!

But makesure u have atleast 2gb of RAM if you want to run multiple OS!

 

Dang...we get x86 only for $30

Oh, and I'd say at least 3GB for multiple OSes. Get 4GB if your main OS is 64bit.

 

Agreed. I haven't made the leap to x64 just yet. I'm waiting for better support all around...driver and application wise.

 

wow, i wasnt expecting so many different opinions. Whats this SP1 you guys speek of?

 

I am running Vista 64 on my D630, and it is great! Fast, reliable and no issues.

 

I would go with XP, personal prefrence. I do have 2 desktops at home with Vista...

 

SP1=Service Pack 1-It's supposed to improve many aspects of Vista, including reliability and application/device support,

More Info: http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/vista_sp1.asp

 

Though Vista has come a long way since release, SP1 will expand on those, fixing several known issues regarding Vista.