dont freak about the operating system.. windows 7 is a great OS , and if people werent influenced by the media so much vista would have been fine also.. dont get me wrong vista had some issues but for the every day person it was not an issue .. media said HATE VISTA so everyone hated it .. but windows 7 is very nice...... there is a bigger beter pc every other day.. nothing you can do about that .. microsoft has not mentioned a new OS yet . now i did read that google is working on 1, but thats going to be awhile from now .. plus even if u did buy a windows 7 machine and a new os came out in a year, you can continue to run yours just fine or do a simple upgrade to the new 1 ...