Michael Watterson wrote: > My wife got new laptop last month with XP. > My son just bought a netbook today with XP (160Gbyte HDD). > my other son bought an insane Gamer Laptop with twin HDDs and Desktop > type CPU (even software controlled glowing orange edges). Win7 64bit. > He won't let anyone prise his old XP laptop from his hands, he uses it > still for non-gaming. I was under the impression MS stopped allowing new versions of XP to be sol= d a few years ago. For a while you could pay extra for downgrade rights to switch to XP after having bought a machine with Vista, but I think they stopped doing that too. Either that or all the XP machines are old hardware. Can you provide a link to a reputable seller offering current machines with XP? ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .