Since I cant find a link to a several year old article(imagine that), and during some searching it became clear that it was intended in large part to be a gaming platform, I apologize for my harsh words, although I still maintain that there was an article in the beginning from MS that stated that 98 was the better choice for gaming at that time. Perhaps it was because of the higher system req's for XP then that made alot of difference, or from legacy support. I don't remember the details. So again Creston sorry for the harsh words, I can admit when I'm wrong.