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Out of thousands of reviews for 29 products, over 100 people recommended Operating Systems specifically for Intel. These 8 are the most highly recommended products we found.

No 1 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition Full Version OEM
Microsoft Windows  Vista  Home Premium Edition Full Version OEM for PC (1 Computers) $110 - $135 Compare Prices
  • Feature Packed
  • Full Version
  • Platform: PC
  • Released over 2 years ago
18 People Recommend
"running it with an intel e8400 cpu, and 8gb of ram.…"

- Gaming821 at Newegg.com

"i have an intel core 2 quad q6600 and it runs great with 4gb of ram.…"

- Newegg.com User

"i am using onboard sound for now (intel hd) and it sounds fine to me.…"

- Newegg.com User


No 2 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition Full Version
Microsoft Windows  Vista  Home Premium Edition Full Version for PC (1 Computers, 1 User/ s) $97 - $285 Compare Prices
  • Full Version
  • Platform: PC
  • Released 1 year ago
8 People Recommend
"i purchased the software yesterday at cc.i have an hp media center pc vista capable intel core 2 duo processor 4 gigs ram 500 gig hard drive.i loaded it directly over my xp. …"

- Bob from Austin, TX at Circuitcity.com

"the amount of programs unavailable for os x is quite great, therefore any intel mac user should consider paying the small price for this gorgeous os. …"

- Dell.com User

"i love windows vista, even though it is expensive, at first i had trouble with my hardware drivers, but since intel has realease new drives it just works fine.…"

- Danny from Los Angeles, California at Circuitcity.com


No 3 Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64Bit
 Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64Bit $136 - $165 Compare Prices
  • Released 1 year ago
6 People Recommend
"its a single core amd 64 bit@2.4 runs as if not faster than my old intel core 2 duo@2.4 with xp pro 32bit.…"

- Rob at Newegg.com

"running the intel quad 2.4 with 8gb of a-date pc800 ram, with dual hd2600 an crossfire ,with an 750w power, all 8gb shows up in microsoft did not have to format from the amd 4400 agp setup.…"

- Newegg.com User

"no worries with any drivers for either intel or amd, ati or nvidia based systems.…"

- Newegg.com User


No 4 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with SP2b Full Version for PC $97 - $230 Compare Prices
  • Full Version
  • Platform: PC
  • Released over 2 years ago
5 People Recommend
"and when it did see the hard drive, the next command was to install intel's matrix manager, which i could not do because at this installation point, windows no longer noticed my external floppy drive.…"

- Newegg.com User

"cpu intel|c2q q6600 2.40g 775 8m r…"

- kcooley at Newegg.com

"intel 2 duo e6850 evga geforce 8600gt thermal purepower 500 watt power supply, gigabyte lga 775 intel p35 atx all solid capacitor mobo.…"

- bcjones39 at Newegg.com


No 5 Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition Full Version OEM
Microsoft Windows  Vista  Business Edition Full Version OEM for PC $100 - $199 Compare Prices
  • Full Version
  • Platform: PC
  • Released over 2 years ago
3 People Recommend
"i have a western digital raptor wd1500adfd 150gb serial ata 10,000rpm hard drive w/16mb buffer,intel boxd946gzissl 946gz core 2 duo/pentium 1066fsb motherboard,intelĀ® core 2 duo e6600 conroe…"

- Newegg.com User

"the system is no turtle anyway with a intel d930 processor, a d945gtp main board, 2 gig of memory, two sata hitachi's of 80 gig each comnfigured as raid 0. …"

- Newegg.com User

"i got the 64 bit version and i am use a e6600 core 2 duo and yes intel's 64 bit is as good as amd's 64 bit with the core 2 architecture... …"

- Newegg.com User


No 6 Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition with Service Pack 2b (SP2b) Full Version OEM for PC (1 $140 Compare Prices
  • Full Version
  • Platform: PC
  • Released over 2 years ago
3 People Recommend
"i used the core 2 duo x6800 intel chip, nvidia 680i sli ready motherboard and one nvidia 8800gtx video card, 4 gigs of corsair ddr2 1088mhz ram and the windows xp64 pro os. …"

- Compusa.com User

"i didnt get the coupon for microsoft vista thoughother thoughts: cooler master stacker, intel core 2 duo e6600, radeon 1900xtx, sound blaster x-fi fatality.…"

- Newegg.com User

" other thoughts: cooler master stacker, intel core 2 duo e6600, radeon 1900xtx, sound blaster x-fi fatality.…"

- Newegg.com User


No 7 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Full Version
Microsoft Windows Vista  Ultimate Full Version for PC $158 - $346 Compare Prices
  • Full Version
  • Platform: PC
  • Released over 2 years ago
3 People Recommend
"if your looking for a great os this is the only way to go, apple needs to be careful before microsoft takes them out the game lol, seriously though, apple even uses intel processors now so that might…"

- R2R from BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA at Circuitcity.com

"i have vista running smoothly on a desktop with 3 ghz intel pentium 4 with 1 gb ram and a laptop with 1.8 ghz amd turion64 with 512 mb of ram. …"

- Amazon.com User

"then it installs, which took about an hour in my case on a celeron d cpu at 2.13 gigahertz and a little over 1g of memory, with the standard dell-intel graphics chips (not exactly a high-end…"

- Amazon.com User


No 8 Apple Mac OS X V10.3 Full Version
Apple Mac OS X V10.3 Full Version for Mac (10 Client/s) $199 - $250 Compare Prices
  • Full Version
  • Platform: Mac
  • Released over 3 years ago
2 People Recommend
"further muddying the os waters is the recent release of intel-based macs and the requirement to provide dual release (universal binary)versions of software for both powerpc and intel chipsets. …"

- Amazon.com User

"apple announced that intel core duo processors will be used in the new range of macs. …"

- Amazon.com User


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