Actually I was tempted to get XP SP3 for the laptop and HTPC rig.
Since I was dropping in an SSD and giving the laptop to my gf, I thought Win7 might work well for her.
As for the desktop, I've had growing pains with Vista 64 especially with my Auzentech X-Fi. They finally worked out the memory leak that would cause my system to halt while listening to music and watching videos (anything audio related minus gaming). Other than that, I'd like to justify having 8GB of system memory with (hopefully) less caching to the hard disk.
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