[louloublu]

While I'm not an IT expert like you guys seem to be, the little experience I've with Vista would not encourage me to upgrade to it. Where I work we sell mobile broadband modems and the only times customers have issues installing it, is either if they have illegal software downloads or if they have Vista. Also my brother has just finished his final year of a mechanical engineering degree and for his final year project he decided to buy a laptop as he much of the project was CAD based and he couldn't always get PC access at college. The first one he purchased had Vista and the CAD was excruciatingly slow so he returned it and got one with XP and was able to do his project no problem.