

. Though I don't see much improvement with IE8 (runs faster than IE7 on Vista as well), Chrome seems to beat the competition 


. And lay of XP, it's practically dead. Use Vista (yes, it runs fine on a good PC) or a faster linux system, I got ubuntu + KDE + Virtualbox with coherent windows (and yes, for the sake of speed, XP). But never use XP as a seperate system.