XP or Vista

[coral]

I'm out for a new Thinkpad X60s

Vista or XP?

What's work best with the preinstalled drivers and so on?

[ryengineer]

I am still an XP guy. But I will suggest opting for Vista to XP.

Why? Vista is eventually what everybody will be using in a year or so, pretty much like a standard OS as XP was before pre-Vista years. Also, Vista will be a plus point for you if lets say, you plan on selling your machine in future.

[andyP]

I would also opt for Vista, if it doesn't quite work with all your software needs it is possible to downgrade to XP and later upgrade back to Vista when everything should work.

That's assuming I've correctly understood the following document:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... rights.doc

[Stargate199]

Though Vista is nice, some of the "improvements" for mobile computing for me have not been proven to be worthwhile. Using Aero also wastes battery life. XP, properly configured, will give exceptional battery life and performance.

[dr_st]

XP.

Don't give in to the evil.

[jdhurst]

If Vista complies with everything you are going to install, use it. Vista does NOT comply with critical business software at this point (security and VPN as only two examples), so it is useless to me at this point. But that will change over time. ... JDH

[chaukap]

I vote for vista too.. just check if all the softwares you use are available for vista or can be installed in compatibility mode.
Yes there are some issues with battery life, other than that it works great. I have a 64-bit installation which is fast and i love working on it.
Overall i have not encountered any stabilty issues with Vista which would make it better than XP.