Regarding Vista basic, I didn't do my research. Other than Aero, are there other differences between Basic and Premium?
Doh! I forgot. Vista Basic is limited to 8 GB of RAM. But here's a crazy idea. Use the Windows 7 beta instead of buying Vista. It's free now while it's in beta and then you can buy it when it's released. If you're tempted to buy Vista Premium now, note on the following chart that Vista Premium is limited to 16 GB.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr..._windows_vista

As for other differences:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...s/default.aspx

Quote Originally Posted by 'Owltoid',index.php?page=Thread&postID=172061#post 172061
Out of curiousity, since you looked at www.buyxg.com, what did you think of their prices in general? Knowing my rig, did you see anything that stood out as overly expensive? I understand that they could use cheaper builds of some things, like the video card which doesn't give the black edition option.
I think the only way to know is look up the items on Newegg and compare. Which you did, right? So you know better than me. I don't know what the black edition is.