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Hi Guys

I am looking to buy a dell laptop, and they give you a choice of either XP or Vista Basic can anyone tell me as I have always used XP Home, How does vista basic compare to the XP system? Do you still get Outlook Express, and other usual attachments that you get with XP? I would imagine that XP will soon be obsolete so using Vista is the obvious choice?

Also consider Vista home premium instead of the Basic.
This sums it up fairly well

I`ve read that the Basic version will run on less memory (presumeably because of the non Aero interface).

If you look around the Dell site you`ll see that they have very similar specced laptops on offer with the Premium version.

I`m making the same choice at the moment on a laptop for my daughter. I must admit I have a Vista Business equipped laptop, and I`m ALWAYS fighting it to get stuff installed - not having enough rights (but I`m set us as a administrator, WTF?), and some software won`t run on Vista.

This item was edited on Sunday, 26th August 2007, 09:47

Thanks, this laptop is for my daughter as well, but I am very tempted to just get XP as its so user friendly!

Personally, I`m not going to touch vista until MS release their first service pack. Just like XP really, that was awful until they released SP2, I stuck with Win2K for years before taking on XP.

Give Microsoft a chance to iron out the bugs and also the software developers and hardware manufacturers need time to sort out drivers and software compatibility etc.

just my 2p`s worth of course....