On 01/11/2010 19:32, Carl Denk wrote:
> I got a Gateway LT2114U with XP  home from J&  R mid June. No built in
> optical drive, but for around $35 I got a 2 layer DVD with Lightscribe
> USB drive. The nettop also came with 811N and Bluetooth. So if you have
> a desktop available, that should enable data transfer at good rates, but
> if the system crashes, you will need the USB drive to get it running
> again. Remember to burn a set of restore discs and/or slipstream an
> install disc while you are able. Checking a little while ago, I couldn't
> find the same, or any with XP at J&  R.
>> Basically there are "larger Netbooks" that are laptops, but are netbooks
>> because no optical drive,
>> But with typically 160GB HDD, you can load ISO of CD and mount as letter
>>

see=20
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/windows-xp-falls-under-60-ie8=
-loses-share-for-the-first-time.ars

Places selling Windows XP (not just Win7 with "upgrade" to XP)

Argos is one of largest retailers in UK and Ireland
http://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=3D30001&catalo=
gId=3D1500002451&langId=3D-1&searchTerms=3Dwindows+XP

Not all the results have XP

Overclockers (UK but ships to Ireland) is popular
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search_results.php?sortby=3D&groupid=3D959&se=
arch=3DXP

Maplin (UK and Ireland, online and highstreet stores)
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=3DXP
four results

Probably loads more. Those are just the first places I tried
My Wife's 11.7" netbook/laptop bought last month is HP, with XP. Still=20
available.

My son's netbook from Argos (=80220) picked up in City centre (no=20
shipping) is eMachines. Seems well built. There was a cheaper Acer
LED backlit 1024 x 600 10.1" LCD, 1G RAM, XP home, 160Gbyte HDD, Atom=20
N450 CPU, WiFi, USB, VGA, Ethernet, mic & ear 3.5.mm
Built in mic, speakers, camera
Matt black.
Was using 245M doing nothing and a bit slow. After removal of all=20
"shovel ware" inc all MS trialware and MS Live services, disable=20
unneeded services (CD Burner when no drive???) scrape of Norton, better=20
explorer and security settings etc and Foxit instead of Adobe PDF,=20
Thunderbird 2.x instead of Live mail, Open Office, Firefox (about 3 hrs).
Now totally Zippy, and only 110M RAM in use. Has Silverlight and Flash,=20
incase, but "noscript" and "Flashblock" plug-ins on Firefox so user=20
whitelists.






BTW I'm fairly sure you DO NOT need to have actual MS supplied media to=20
install XP, just either a valid licence for the box, or Windows 7 Ultimate.
You can take an old XP CD, slip stream SATA drivers (because if the PC=20
has no IDE emulation mode or floppy drive, there is no other way) and=20
SP3 etc (free 3rd party tool rips ISO, slipstreams and makes ISO=20
http://www.nliteos.com/ ) and put that on a USB stick. All legal as long=20
as you have a valid licence key.


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