Which windows is the best to use for bootcamp?

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I'm planning sooner or later to get windows for my mac using bootcamp but don;t know which? Vista or XP? and which ones out of all those versions. I'll be basically using it for games like sims 3.;D

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I would say XP.
Don't say the V world ;D
 
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Vista is so buggy... XP uses less memory and more stable.
Don't forget that it won't be your main OS, so it doesn't have to be the newest windows.

That's just my opinion... Good luck!

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since it looks like windows is going back to the drawing board to create a new os to replace vista already. that just shows you how bad it has gotten. the very company that made it is giving up.

so with that being said i would go with xp...
 
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if you are using it for gaming then go with xp vista tends to bog down games a little. Games on XP tend to punch out a few extra fps
 
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I use Vista Home Premium. Would have went XP, but I wanted DX10 for gaming. I did some registry tweaks to Vista to speed it up. So far I'm very pleased with how Vista performs on my MacBook Pro.
 
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I use Vista all the time and have absolutely no problems with it, in fact, there are features in it that XP lacks that I've become very accustomed to. Don't listen to any haters bashing on Vista, it's a good OS. That being said, if you run it and have less than 3Gb of ram, it may be slow. If you can't get that much ram, run XP. If you can, run Vista.
 
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if you will use it for example Sims 3... it will be realesed to mac as well :p
I guess you mean "The Sims 3"

All EA games is coming for Mac with Intel =)
 

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