I think you can still buy a Dell machine with XP although you may have
to go through the business side rather than the home user side. What I
did was buy refurb machines on the business side and selected only from
those with XP (most of them)
Chuck Norcutt
Sue Pearce wrote:
> The HP department that sells commputers to businesses over the phone offers
> laptops with XP. My wife buys them by the case with no problems.
>
> Bill Pearce
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>> I've been itching to buy a laptop smaller than my 15.4" Dell for travel.
>> This would be mostly personal use, emailing, downloading pics from memory
>> cards, etc. I was initially interested in netbooks, until a helpful
>> salesman
>> at Office Depot told me that most of their customers who bought netbooks
>> had
>> not been satisfied because of limitations of the form factor.
>>
>> Now I'm considering a 12" HP that the salesman recommended. My biggest
>> question is about the OS. I've stayed with various version of XP on all my
>> computers. XP MCE on my desktop and laptop at home and XP Pro on the
>> desktops
>> at my office. I just haven't had the need to switch to Vista and wanted
>> to
>> stay with an OS I know and am comfortable with. I know Win 7 is just
>> around
>> the corner, and Office Depot is offering a free upgrade to Win 7 on
>> computers that are bought now.
>>
>> My biggest question is whether the 64-bit Vista Home Premium that is on
>> the
>> HP will run all the software I'm used to using. Photoshop Elements would
>> be the biggie. I seem to recall reading in the past that some 32-bit apps
>> won't run on 64-bit Vista. Am I correct?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Greg
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