nlited xp or regular windows 7?

[milkit]

I am building a new mame cab and I bought this hardware, I am going to run 64 bit and need to know which would be best...

An N-lited version of windows xp pro 64-bit
or stock (since there is not a "lite" program for 7 that i know of?) windows 7 home premium

Obviously a lite version helps because less stuff is running, but windows 7 im guessing makes better use of 64 bit and dual cores. Here is my hardware:

Amd Athlon II X2 250 Dual Core 3.0ghz
2gb ddr2 Ram
500gb sata

Any suggestions?

[wooowman93]

Just keep xp

your not even gonna see or use the new features when running the front end over it and you may run into compatibility issues

[milkit]

well i was planning on turning off most of the visual aspects of windows 7 (aero, peek, etc)

but you dont think the bare perfomance enhancements would be worth it? (seeing as dual core and 64 bit is now a major focus)

[BobA]

There is a Tiny 7 available from usual sources.   It is not available in 64 bit and probably will not be.

[Gamester]

I would stick with XP.  There really is no compelling technical reason to use Win7 over nLited XP for an arcade cab.  As a previous poster mentioned, with Win7 you also take the risk of having compatibility issues.

[Karnako]

Apparently nLite and vLite are abandoned now...Anyway, if you care about stripping parts of Windows 7, I suggest you to check vLite forums: http://www.msfn.org/board/vlite-f153.html You'll find some guides there, although I cannot recommend any specific.

Considering that Vista is usually pointed as better than XP on 64-bit, maybe 7 would be a good try. However, you may fall on compatibility issues as everyone suggested. On this sense, I would try Ultimate (Professional maybe?) as it has the XP compatibility mode - home editions don't have it.