Quote Originally Posted by ValiantKnight View Post
Friend who works at best buy told me that when it comes to laptops, its becoming harder to put windows XP on them, because of the wireless cards and other components not having even basic XP drivers.

That they frequently blue-screen during a Windows XP install on the newer laptops, yet go through a Vista install, just fine.
Manufacturers aren't going to stop making XP drivers any time soon.
It's no secret that Vista has been plagued by problems since the release of the Beta testing versions early last year, so hardware manufacturers would be a bit silly not to develop XP drivers.

If you go vista, just make sure you double your RAM from XP, or even triple.

1gb will handle most non-gaming needs on a laptop for XP. 2 or 3 is needed for vista.
1GB is perfectly sufficient for use on Vista. I'm able to run VMWare or Bioshock perfectly well on my PC with 1GB of RAM.