[airman]

2.4 dual core Intel or AMD and you have a very good system as far as it looks I have 3 version of Vista i am running and I build all the systems myself and have been a beta tester for 3 years. I think is is everyones own preference at this place and time, but Vista is getting a bad name in some corners. Like today I was in a retail store buying a HVR-1600 tuner card for my one system and a lady had nothing good to say about Vista, it let a worm into her hard drive, and destroyed her system. Plus vista uses ram in a different way than XP my systems run about 36-38 percent usage with 3 gig of ram in a system and my systems are up 24-7 and the longer they are up the more ram is used so when they get to about 50 percent I shut them down turn the PS of and let then sit about 2 hours and then reboot and they are then back to the 36-38 percent. I am getting ready to try Linux full time one of these days myself just for fun so enjoy what ever OS you use.