however, i am not sure that this page excludes XP. XP is based on the 2k kernal, but it has a lot more features and stuff that you dont need for taping. win2k is very barebones and more stabile. damon, i have win2k and winxp on my laptop. i use win2k for only recording, and winxp for daily use. the win2k partition is stripped down with no software but wavelab. this reduces the load on the os compared to my xp partition which has antivirus, MS office, and a whole host of applications ans services that run, which cause more of a burden if i try to also record with it. can a machine with a 1+GHz cpu and over 512M ram handle it, probably, but why try when i got the stable 2k OS that is bulletproof.