>>Agreed on Win8.1, which I find to be the best Win OS I've used. The pain of 7 would be only temporary, so it depends on whether any $ differential would be worth it to the OP.
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>>>Win 8.1 is faster, more secure, and uses less memory than Win7. I'd go with 8.
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>>>Also, WIN10 won't be available for all on 7.29. There will be staged rollouts.
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>>>>Hi Rich,
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>>>>you might find Windows 7 Pro available cheaper. You'll only have to live with 7 a little while, as Windows 10 will be free t all Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 users as of 7/29.
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>One thing you will have to be careful about if you choose to go purchase a computer that has been built for Windows 7 -- there is a remote possibility that the hardware might not have driver support in a later OS version.

Have you seen any example of that? I haven't, myself. My understanding is the driver model has been stable since the big change for Vista/Server 2008 (when all the OEMs were screaming). I haven't heard any OEM screaming lately (about drivers, anyways ;\)