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? > HP, Acer, eMachines etc.. I can't right now. I will later. Google Netbook and "Windows XP". Basically there are "larger Netbooks" that are laptops, but are netbooks=20 because no optical drive, But with typically 160GB HDD, you can load ISO of CD and mount as letter --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .