I have also Vista 32bit on this laptop, I look forward to Win 7 (now it's unfinished, so I won't download beta), because it's fixed improved Vista, if you have XP, you can stick with that, sometimes it's better than will be the 7, both are better (the 7 will be, XP is) than Vista.
The most annoying thing in Vista is when I have opened Acrobat Reader and it falls from some buffer thingy... the worst thing is when I work in Inkscape because of documentation for school project and it falls (and work isn't saved). Also Gimp or Firefox do these things (and Kubuntu doesn't work with my current wi-fi router encrypting, so it's screwed). It was like "Asta la Vista" fast and quality OS (with low anti-copying meassures) from MASSIVEsoft and HW companies (I mean those OEM Vistas and components working properly just with Vista drivers... at least in early stages).
The Windows OS is good on fun and some specialized programmes, Linux is good on work (there are some problems, like DirectX, and so, but for typing and drawing it's enough) or for servers.
Also Macs seems to be good on work, I have heard from one guy he's using XP on PowerMac laptop and it's really fast (well I am using this laptop with Vista and only CnC3 on highest details with some higher anti-aliasing was snoppy a bit, RA3 runs even faster (but RA3 gameplay is too sloooowww)).
Also university get us to learn Unix and Linux which have some really big differences from Windows, like text files using EOF, different '\n', processes can be zombified, etc. (these are problems when I try to test some programmes written for linux in Windows).
Not sure what x64 and x86 is... guessing it's the resolutions.
Edited by partyzanPaulZy, 31 May 2009 - 12:04 AM.