Hi, You can go for vista but keep in mind your pc must have: 2gb ram minimum + intel core 2 duo for a smooth machine. At my office we run 7000 machines on vista for 1,5 years. If you have vista sp1 then a ton of drivers are included (for those people that whine) @ home i run 3 vista machines too the slowest is a 2ghz p4 machine with 1gb. My girl uses it for internet. Never crashed. Vista is good. People make it look bad cause they don't know how it works. Anyway next week im on microsoft tech-ed barcelona and have a few side meetings with some product managers. I hope i can slip in some better midi acception in windows 7. They tend to listen on those meetings ;). If you have any advice or wishes i can bring along tell me...