Buying a comp at Best Buy

And you plan to dual boot your new computer with XP?

I'm honestly edgy on that too since I find the idea of downgrading my computer just to play MS silly. I'd first see how well Win7 itself works (since I don't plan to do boss runs until MS makes it Win7 compatible), and if it is terrible, then I might have to do something I'm not comfortabe with.

Why do you want to dual-boot XP? Other than the standard one, every version version of 7 comes with a virtual machine that runs XP.

Again, my comp knowledge is very limited. I was just told by a friend to find a computer that can dualboot since MS isn't very Win7 compatible. I'm a bit more interested in this "Virutal Machine" bit since I've yet to hear of that.