At 12:50 AM 3/16/2010, Harry Binswanger wrote:I'm thinking of retaining the MacBook for music and photos, which it is quite good at, and getting another Windows machine for my serious work. And that raises my unanswered question: is there any reason to prefer XP over Win7 for either XyWrite or things like Word and Excel?And if you go with WIN7, do you go 32 or 64 bit? Michael Norman