Windows 7 or vista..?

[gnihcraes]

shouldn't be able to buy XP for the PC anymore... you are stuck with windows 7. Windows 7 is ok, many people liking it and having good results with it for a while now...

but get a mac if you really want to have stability...

[SA Friday]

I am way not qualified to give any computer advice, but all my geek friends explained it to me this way.

Windows programers hit a snag and write more code to get around it.

Mac programmers hit a snag and back up and rewrite the snag out of it.

This results in Mac being faster and smoother with less snags in programming to get locked up on. It also ends up with Mac's being more expensive.

[iamhunter]

I'm a web application developer, programmer, and graphic artist.

I've worked on both PCs and Macs, and currently work on a Mac provided by my company.

Mac's are great machines.

THAT SAID.

They are easily $200-400 over priced for what you can buy in a comparable PC.

Windows 7 is a great OS. Vista is awful.

Get her an entry level with Windows 7 on it and I'm sure she'll be more than happy.

[Irving]

I think you guys are talking to a bot again. Who signs up to a gun forum to ask about computer questions?

[micah360]

bots need love too...

[Batteriesnare]

Buy a Mac, shoot your old PC!

[theGinsue]

Personnaly, I've been too cheap to go out and get Windows 7 for myself, but...

As an IT guy I get asked LOTS of questions about peoples personal home computers. Additionally, plenty of folks tell me about how great their home systems are. In that vain, I've had about a dozen people tell me of their experiences with Windows 7. All but one person prefers Win7 over Vista. It has a lot of integrated features that used to be extras with XP and Vista. I hear that it loads faster and the code is cleaner causing it to take up less hard drive space.

Hope this helps.