I have XP also (it came on my Dell Inspiron 8100) it seems ok at first but after a little while, I seem to get a lot of "Blue screens" that were "gone" after 2000. (The interesting thing is that the first blue screen i got was after installing MS Office XP, go figure )Except these blue screens are memory dumps...it can't be too little power because the machine I have has 1GHz w/512Mb of RAM. As soon as I can find a good HOWTO on installing Red Hat or Mandrake on it I will. Everything I use it for can be done with StarOffice and XMMS.