On 01/11/2010 18:16, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 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 s=
old
> 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 wi=
th
> XP?

I was under this impression too, which made me reconsider changing back=20
to XP from Vista. If I knew support was going to be available to 2020=20
(or at least the mext few years) and XP machines were still being sold I=20
mght think again, at least until I move to WIn7 at some point.

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