I bought a new laptop back in March that had Vista on it. It is currently the computer I am using now. I like some of the newer features it has on it like Speech Recognition and being able to use your flash drives to speed up the computer, but it isn't really meant for gaming. Unless you go all out and pay the extra money for a really good computer, I'd recommend keeping Windows XP for playing games because you will lag a lot if not. It looks nicer and may be more secure but it's not high performance capable without lag.