i have just boughten a laptop and i love it. i cant wait untill i get my windows and start be able to play games on it. I have LInux as an OS. it isnt to bad its easy to use but the problem with it is that you cant find games that will run on Linux. so i am looking to get windows 7. which is $200 for the whole program. but if i can find a windows XP or Vista then you can buy the upgrade of windows 7. which is $100. I heard that Vista is a big program(20 GB) and the qulality is not very good. Its is big and clumsy. If i was to get windows vista it was recomended that i upgrade the ram, from 2GB to 4GB. but the the problem with upgrading from XP/Vista to windows 7 is that it will take all day to upgrade the computer. my processor is a dual core. so its not bad. but most imprortantly it will run top video games like WoW or warhammer, heros 5. what else i would like to get into computer engineering i have used the programs like XNA and C++. so i have some background in it so i just have to reteach myself.