[Kyle Love]

Whatever fits YOU best.

Neither one is superior to the other. My roommate this past year at school is a CGT major (Computer Graphics Technology) and used a Vista PC to do ALL of his projects and never once had a problem. Likewise, a kid down the hall from me always ran into compatibility issues with some programs he used for class so he had to use a computer lab. But he always ranted and raved about the interface of the OS and how he loved it. Granted Vista had its cons at the beginning, I havent had immense issues with it recently.

Like Akash said, nobody says you have to use Vista. If you are use to XP, get XP on it. From my limited experience with Windows 7 thus far, I think it may be a good mix between Vista and XP so you may look into that down the road.

But, like I said at the beginning, pick the one that fits YOU best, not the one that can trash talk the other best. IN the end, YOU will be the one using it so YOU know what you want it to do/perform like. I would suggest trying to borrow a friends PC and MAC for a night, do the exact same thing on both, and see which you prefer.