For years (maybe close to 30) I have building my own. Had problem with 
motherboard mouse circuit, ordering today:

Old: Intel D845WN 1.6G P4 motherboard, ATI radeon 9800pro all in wonder 
graphics w/NTSC tuner, 1 G ram

New: Intel DP965LT 3G P4 motherboard, ATI 650 tuner, ATI radeon 2600 
video, 2 G DDR2 800 ram.

Keep: 320 G & 80G hard drives, DVD & DVD 2 layer drives,6 month old PSU, 
flash card adapter, 3.5 & 5.25 floppys. XP PRO dual boot with Kubuntu 
(still struggling with network to 2nd computer running XP.), Hp5550 
inkjet, Microtek I700 scanner, Sony G400 monitor

Every couple of months or so, I just buy another something, just keep 
upgrading

Oh, and the 2nd box is a Compaq 5310US, 1g Celeron, 256 ram, XP Home 
inherited from granddaughter.

Not really happy, every day we know better why hermits are hermits.

Brian Kraut wrote:
> Exactly why I just bought a Dell Inspiron laptop for more money and not
> exactly the configuration I wanted because it was one of the few I could
> still buy with XP.
> 
> Brian Kraut
> Engineering Alternatives, Inc.
> www.engalt.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Bob Axtell
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:20 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE]:: Vista madness
> 
> 
> This application developer has summed up Vista very well...
> 
> http://www.jsware.net/jsware/ditips.php3#vist
> 
> --Bob A
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