QUOTE (Syrallas @ Feb 21 2009, 10:39 PM)

Trouble is, if your not a pc guy/gal -- and I'm
not, you basically get what is being sold at the time you're in the market. I think Dell still lets you get xp, but I'm pretty sure most other vendors -- definitely hp -- are pre-bundled w/Vista.
I did, though make sure I got my daughter a 32 bit set up, and avoided the push for the 64 bit ....

Hehehe. Even if you a PC guy/gal, you can't always get what you want, when buying from HP. I actually got the computer, for her, for Christmas, 2007. I couldn't get XP, and I have an unused, new, XP Pro disc that I was going to put on her laptop, after a Format C:, but she didn't mind Vista. She isn't very computer literate but is learning.