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With either one, get VMware and you can also run Windows XP whenever you want to, for as long as you want to, without driver worries (because the hardware is virtualized, so no driver issues!)

Is that going to be the solution so that individual machine drivers will become unnecessary?

>> With either one, get VMware and you can also run Windows XP whenever you want to, for as long as you want to, without driver worries (because the hardware is virtualized, so no driver issues!)

> Is that going to be the solution so that individual machine drivers will become unnecessary?

You still need some sort of drivers for whatever operating system you run on the host hardware. My personal choice is currently the Macintosh (the small MacBook, and a Mini), because the hardware is slick and no driver issues there either. But I've got legacy hardware running Linux and Windows and it runs VMware just fine, so I run my VMs on whatever I feel like powering up that day.

My notebook (the MacBook) runs OS-X native, but I have VMs on it of Windows XP, Linux (Fedora Core 4), NetBSD, and MS-DOS. None of them even know they're inside a Mac, no driver issues period.

Get a computer you like, I don't care what OS comes on it, install VMware, run XP in the VM. DONE.