Hi Bill,

>Thanks for the input. This is pretty consistent with what I have been hearing from most ... but, hey ... wait a minute ... you're a Microsofty now ... how can I trust what you say? :-)

LOL.

>Seriously, I figured I'd have to go with some extra RAM and I also figured game support would be overall better than W2K. My main concern was with a few ( in this thread and one individual at work ) reporting some problems they have had with XP, particularly with slowdowns in various scenarios which "seems" to be related to the apparent resource "hogginess" of the OS.
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>Even tho I will develop on the machine it will be a home scenario with gaming and all so at this point I am leaning towards XP but I will continue to gather info until I make the fianl decision.

You asked me in a followup why XP Pro over home? Here's the page which describes the differences:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp