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<blockquote data-quote="oldhomehaibane" data-source="post: 647513" data-attributes="member: 54729"><p>I am thinking of installing either XP or Vista on my new iMac (not the ones just recently released, but a 2.8 ghz processor, 4 GB memory, 1 TB hard drive) and I was wondering which would be best for me. </p><p></p><p>I will be using it primarily for games (in fact, I can't think of anything else that I would need it for), but most of the games I play are fairly old. I'm talking things like Fallout, Baldur's Gate 1 + 2, Planescape, Darklands, etc. Some of the games I might like to play were released before 1997 and may require DOSBox to run them. Some of these games might be difficult to run on XP, so I was worried that they might not run on Vista at all.</p><p></p><p>I do play newer games like Half-Life 2, Oblivion, and Civilization IV occasionally, but I probably play more old games than I play newer ones. I'm not actually much of a gamer anymore, really.</p><p></p><p>I may also use VMWare Fusion from time to time. I figure it would be alright if the games are older?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldhomehaibane, post: 647513, member: 54729"] I am thinking of installing either XP or Vista on my new iMac (not the ones just recently released, but a 2.8 ghz processor, 4 GB memory, 1 TB hard drive) and I was wondering which would be best for me. I will be using it primarily for games (in fact, I can't think of anything else that I would need it for), but most of the games I play are fairly old. I'm talking things like Fallout, Baldur's Gate 1 + 2, Planescape, Darklands, etc. Some of the games I might like to play were released before 1997 and may require DOSBox to run them. Some of these games might be difficult to run on XP, so I was worried that they might not run on Vista at all. I do play newer games like Half-Life 2, Oblivion, and Civilization IV occasionally, but I probably play more old games than I play newer ones. I'm not actually much of a gamer anymore, really. I may also use VMWare Fusion from time to time. I figure it would be alright if the games are older? [/QUOTE]
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