Is Office Depot The Only Place To Buy A New PC Without Vista Installed?

[ponyboy]

how about Dell factory outlet or sony outlet stores?

[gaybucks_chip]

You might pick up a copy of "Computer Shopper" magazine... there are quite a few smaller manufacturers in there that do custom laptops, and I'm sure those guys would be happy to install XP.

Otherwise, I echo the suggestion to talk to Dell.

[Lee]

Well i actually just got back in from BestBuy where i bit the bullet and got a new HP laptop with Vista installed, i figure as MS are going to be phasing out support for XP its as good a time as any to make the switch.

Now to get it setup and put in the extra memory :eek:

Regards,

Lee

[DEVELISH]

IMHO there is enough time left to stick to Windows XP... I haven't touched Vista yet but I would love to see it in action some day. Darn, I use the access via ssh way to often these days

Tell us your experiences, please, Lee


DEVELISH



Information Links:

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...=WINDOWS+VISTA
Mainstream Support Expires April 10, 2012

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...ilter=FilterNO
Mainstram Support Expires April 4, 2009

Microsoft stops selling licences for Windoes XP on Jan 31, 2008 for OEM and large customers and retail. A year later smaller computer manufacturers ceice to receive licences for XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx

[Flavaworks]

Dell to Reintroduce Windows XP

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/...-xp-253953.php

[jIgG]

dell small business has XP machines

[Lee]

Well so far here is a small list of the things im already annoyed at with Vista....

1) No more 'backgammon' in the 'games' menu, instead its been replaced with chess LOL

2) The control panel functions have all been renamed so instead of looking for add/remove programs, its now called something stupid like 'personalization'

3) I cant get the GayWebmasterToolbar to work on this new laptop, although to be fair thats probably an ie7 issue.

4) I cant figure out how the hell to get rid of this shitty yahoo search box on my taskbar, ive already uninstalled the yahoo toolbar but i still cant figure out how to get rid of this desktop search 'feature'.

5) Its makes funny noises when it starts/shuts down.

6) I cant figure out how to stop the 'help' screen starting when i turn the fucking laptop on.

Other than that, its actually pretty nice... So far.

Regards,

Lee