Quote Originally Posted by bikeolounger View Post
I figure that any new operating system from Microshaft is going to be a bigger memory hog than Windoz XP. I don't really want to have a gig of RAM just to operate the box, and another to run what I want to do.

I'll use XP until it's no longer supported, just because it's what came in the box, then either move to Linux or get a Mac.
Actually, seven uses less memory than XP on my machine. And a LOT less memory than Vista. Besides that, if you've installed SP3 on XP, you might as well be running vista. The kernel is almost the same for the 32 bit versions at this point-and the memory hogging is actually worse on XP anymore. And considering you are talking about 2 gig being a lot of memory, I'm sure you're not running a 64 bit OS.