Thanks for all of your resoning. I going to stay with XP. Doing so means that I will have more money for ram and processor. The PC that i bought will now have a Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 2 Gigs of DDR2/800, 250 Gig HDD, and a GeForce 8400GS 512mb video card. I know its not a hardcore gaming rig but for under 700$ I think its a good deal.